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1. The role of the teacher

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A MOTIVATO

R-motivate ss-get ss involved in creating activity-help ss generate ideas

A RESOURCE-provide information & language-offer advice & suggestions

A FEEDBACK PROVIDER

-give feedback on ss’ writing tasks with special care-respond positively & encouragingly to the content of ss’ written work

2. KINDS OF WRITING IN GRADE 12

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CONTROLLED WRITING- gap-filling- re-ordering sentences- sentence-building

FREE WRITING- letter writing- paragraph writing- report writing- giving instructions- describing chart / book / a sporting event

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3. Some problems with free writing

• A. Many students find it quite difficult

because of

1. having no / lack of ideas

2. limited vocabulary to express opinions

3. disability of using structures ,style or language in English standards

• B. Students would probably approach the task in different ways and produce a wide variety of different paragraphs

4. Approaching the free-writing task

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SELECTING THE

CONTENT- analyze the topic (instruction/ key terms / the aspect of the topic)- find & select IDEAS (brainstorming// finding more ideas)

ORGANIZING IDEAS

- classify ideas- select relevant ideas- rank ideas

SELECTING THE LANGUAGE

- select simple & correct English vocabulary in terms- prepare some common clauses / sentence connectors / expressions- ensure to have a good grasp of the essential grammar points (tenses / passive / parts of speech / structure)

FACILITATING

WRITING

TASKS

Tasks adaptation and implementation

1- Making tasks easier:- Breaking down tasks

- Scaffoldoing

- Lowering requirements

2- Making tasks more challenging/more interesting

Solutions:

Teachers should help students progress beyond very controlled writing to freer writing by guiding their writing ( GUIDED WRITING)

+ Giving cues.

+ Giving a short text as a model.

+ Doing oral preparation for the writing.

MODELLING

• 1. Reading a model and noticing certain grammatical features / vocabulary / useful expressions / text organisation / style…

• 2. Putting different parts of the text onto a writing frame

• 3. Sequencing a jumbled text

• 4. Comparing and contrasting two forms of text of the same genre

•discussing•brainstorming•observing and

interpreting photos or artwork

•watching video clips

•using writing templates/ frames / cloze exercises

•mapping •Brain writing •Using matrix

Some examples of oral preparation for the writing

Brainstorming:

–Getting Ss’ ideas on paper so they can give themselves the widest range of topics possible

Clustering: mapping out ideas

Environment destruction

Air pollution

………………..……..

Waste disposal

………….

deforestation Animal endangered

…………

Brain writing

• Ss sit around a table in their group 1. Write down two or three ideas on a

topic on a sheet of paper 2. Place their paper at the centre of the

table 3. Pick up someone else ‘s response and

read it 4. Write down more new ideas on the

response.

Using matrix - An unforgettable day Characters Places Goals Obstacles resolution

1.Narrator 4. market 7.withdraw money

10.drunk driver.

13. Helped arrived

2. Best friend

5.School 8. Take a driving test

11. Bad weather

14. Victim sent to hospital

3. Old woman

6. Dimly lit park

9.Shop for grocery

12. Being robbed

15. Lesson learnt

Four Square Writing

Step 1: Categorizing - Pictures

Pets

Step 1: Categorizing - Words

Zoo

Lion

Elephant

Giraffe

Camel

Step 2: Examples and a Feeling Sentence

Zoo

Lion Giraffe

ElephantI like going to the zoo to see the animals.

Step 3: Cont…

2. Reason –

We learn here.

3. Reason –

We meet friends.

4. Reason –

We do experiments.

5. Feeling –

I love school.

Complete sentence – School is a great place.

Step 4: Writing a Paragraph

• Paragraphs are several sentences on the same topic.

• Now transfer the sentences from the four blocks to lined paper for paragraph building.

• Whole class modeling is best to teach this.

Step 5: Adding More Details

• Moving from a 5 sentence to an 8 sentence paragraph; go back into the 4 square.

• Add one additional detail sentence in each box.• Elaboration: tell more about the topic or tell what is so

great about it.Reason: We learn here.

Detail: I like to learn

science.

Reason: We meet friends.

Detail: My best friend is in my class.

Reason: We do experiments.

Detail: I built a volcano yesterday.

Feeling Sentence: I love school.

Complete sentence –

School is a great place.

Step 6: Adding Supporting DetailsLearn

• read

• math

• science

Friends

• share lunches

• invite over

• do homework together

Play

• in centers

• on playground

• recess

School is a great place because we learn, meet

friends, and play.

School is a great place.

Step 7: Adding Connecting Words to Provide Transitions Between Ideas

First

Learn

• read

• math

• science

Also

Friends

• share lunches

• invite over

• do homework together

Next

Play

• in centers

• on playground

• recess

So you can see

School is a great place because we learn, meet friends, and play.

School is a great place.

Language Arts Use

• Book Review

Title

Beginning

End

Middle

Did you like it?

Four Square in Science

• An excellent way to review or summarize information learned about a specific process.

Volcanoes

What are they?

How do they operate?

Where are they?

Volcanoes are a powerful, natural

force.

Workers Resources

The workers, resources, and transportation are

important to a community.

Community

Transportation

Four Square in Math• Word problems require the employment of logic and

reasoning different from the usual compute and solve drills.

• These problems require that students develop their own equation, and then perform an unnamed operation to find a solution.

Process Information

Solution

+ 4, 2

6 A Students

Mrs. Smith had four straight A students. Then 2 more in her class got straight A’s. How many A students does she have in all?

4+2=___

Question

Compute

WRITING POEMS

One word title_______________SPORT

Two words describing the title

HAVE FUN_______________

Three verbs expressing an action_______________

RUNNING , JUMPING , SLIDING

WRITING POEMS

Four words expressing a feeling_______________

LAUGHING , SHOUTING ,

CRYING , ALIVE

Another word for a title_______________

LIVING

Sport

Have fun

Running , jumping , sliding

Laughing , shouting , crying , alive

Living

http://www.eduplace.com/activity/ poem cinquain.html

( From Thomas Farrell )

Using correction codes : Symbol Meaning Example error

S

WO

G

T

……….

A spelling error

A mistake in word order

A grammar mistake

Wrong verb tense

…………………

The asnwer is obvious .

I like very much it

I will buy some furnitures

I have seen him yesterday

………………

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