100 Ideas for Teaching Writing

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8309-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 145 g

100 ideas for Teaching Writing provides useful tips for finding ideas, designing briefs, drafting, revising, polishing and presenting assessment as part of a cycle to improve pupils learning and the teacher language book is full of practical tips including instant lessons, effective resources, and lists of dos and don’ts.

Pupils across the age range and across the curriculum spend an extraordinary amount of time writing, yet teachers often do not receive much training. This book provides excellent ideas on how to develop and improve students' writing skills.
- This title follows on from Sue Cowley's Getting the Buggers to Write, which has been very successful.

Pupils across the age range and across the curriculum spend an extraordinary amount of time writing, yet teachers often do not receive much training on how to teach writing. Pupils do not always develop confidence or fulfil their potential. This book shows teachers how to approach the teaching of writing so that they:

- Can teach writing as part of the whole curriculum andas a component of pupils’ linguistic development
- Can teach writing as a process rather than just a product - the process includes: finding ideas, designing briefs, drafting, revising, polishing and presenting
- Use assessment as part of a cycle to improve pupils’ learning and the teacher’s planning
The book is full of practical tips including instant lessons, effective resources, and lists of dos and don’ts. Emphasis is put on providing pupils with a sense of purpose, opportunities to write for real and varied audiences, and experience of real life (non-school-y) types of writing.

Zielgruppe

Teachers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haynes, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Thinking about writing eg
· place in curriculum
· the writing cycle
· progression (what to do when)
· common abuses
2. Teaching the writing process eg
· Writing roles: the composer and the secretary
· process and product: it’s not either/or
· main stages in the process
· writing frames (David Wray)
3. Starting points
· getting ideas
· free-writing
· intensive writing (Margaret Langdon)
· stimuli
4. Drafting and redrafting eg
· Helping pupils to plan
· Responding to drafts
· Proofreading
· presentation
5. Forms and structures eg
· Essays
· Reports
· Narratives
· poetry
6. Writing for different audiences eg
· Who are we writing for? specifying the audience
· The key distinction: personal and impersonal audiences
· Writing for real audiences
· Writing for simulated audiences
7. Technology (handwriting, ICT) eg
· Pens
· physical factors (seating, posture, grip)
· ICT as a stimulus
· ICT and the drafting process: on not starting at the top
8. Spelling eg
· good practice
· bad practice (often well-intentioned and sadly all too common)
· whole school approaches
· children’s spelling ages
9. Punctuation eg
· Teaching punctuation marks as road signs
· Showing how punctuation affects meaning
· Speech marks
· Apostrophes
10. Assessment and evaluation eg
· self-assessment by pupils
· establishing symbols for marking
· practical techniques for marking
· what to do with the results
11. Resources eg
· Dictionaries
· Objects in the classroom
· Websites for pupils
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Über Autor(innen)

Former Chair of English Association schools committee. Former faculty co-ordinator and mentor of PGCE students and NQTs. Written and presented on numerous educational topics including: teaching of writing; teaching of poetry; bilingual education; using the internet and other educational resources. Experienced examiner.