This week was another engaging lesson about writing strategies and the stages of writing development. We finally completed all the presentations and I especially enjoyed the feedback writing strategy. Students can receive feedback from fellow students and their teachers to help them improve their writing. Below are feedback focus cards that allow students to stay on point when reviewing each other's work. What do you think about them?
We moved on to the challenges associated with writing and created suggestions on how we could help students who had this problem. The challenge that really stood out to me was “ Writing as a decontextualized task” which simply means writing about things that you are not actually seeing in the present which can be difficult for students. A solution to this problem is the use of visuals which provides images or objects that students can relate to while writing. An example is bringing an apple to the class that allows students to observe the color, shape, texture, etc. Which challenges stood out to you and how would you go about solving them?
Finally this week we looked at the different stages of writing development and the grades and ages that are associated with them.
-Emergent
-Early
-Transitional
-Fluent
Here is a timeline for the different stages of writing. I thought this could help you guys to remember the stages. What do you guys think?
I can see why you took an interest in the ‘feedback’ strategy. Even as a student-teacher, I feel at ease when the lecturers or even colleagues provide feedback on what I am working on. I can analyze and restructure my content easier, as I am taking into consideration the opinions of the ‘readers’. The ‘feedback focus’ cards will definitely be helpful for students as it prompts their responses to the writer. This (for what seems like the 50 millionth time) will be a strategy I definitely put to use with my students (with a little bit more color of course). The timeline is an interesting depiction of the different stages of writing. What I am starting to realize, is that people have many variations of how they interpret the stages of writing, however, in the end, they have a general understanding of what each stage entails. Finally, I enjoyed the video and all the tips and strategies listed to help improve students writing. I also was not aware that mazes could be used to aid in tracing (*adds to the list of things I will make use of*).
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ReplyDeleteThose feedback focus cards are great learning tools that I see myself using within the classroom, not only for writing but other subject areas, once tweaked. Really like your graphic organizer chosen to display the different stages of the writing development which includes both teacher and student feedback on the stage. I enjoyed your video for it included some strategies I had known about from DTE and also included those which were new for me. And yes that maze strategy really opened my eyes of how creative teaching can be because, through these innovative ideas which are turned into strategies students are able to be successful in writing and other academics.