你好- Nǐ hǎo my people!! Welcome back to my blog for
yet another fantastic week. I hope my last blog on helping struggling writers
tremendously informed you of how to assist these struggling writers within your
classroom and that you are now prepared for this week's
blog post. <3
How do you create an environment that helps students to learn how to write?
Ensuring that
students are within a positive learning environment when they are writing is
important in the development of exceptional writers. If a student is unable to
write for, they may be having issues with spelling, creating ideas, unable to
structure their writing pieces appropriately, may lack understanding of grammar
concepts, or struggling with writing overall for their lack of interest. A teacher’s
objective is to foster a supportive learning environment for his/her students
in the classroom, which would subsequently develop their writing substantially. In
achieving this goal, a supportive learning environment should consist of
materials to support writing, tools for revising writing, assessments such
as rubrics, journals, or portfolios, materials for bookmarking, and encouraging
writing activities.
Materials to Support Writing
Writing
practices are just as helpful as writing tools are in and outside the
classroom. This is because they allow students to grasp, organize, and
integrate past knowledge with new ideas or concepts all while fostering
critical thinking about class content. In supporting students’ writing, writing
materials do not necessarily have to only be pen, pencil, eraser, paper, and/or
as we now are in a technological era a computer or laptop. Materials for
supporting your students' writing may come in the form of writers’ notebooks for
recording special language that has been heard or read, teacher-made charts, reference
materials such as dictionaries, thesauruses, spelling books, electronic spell
checkers, and much more.
Some of these materials to support writing include:
Encouraging
Writing Activities
Other ways we can encourage writing are through fun activities like these below:
Assessment of Writing
Writing
assessments, which can be either summative or formative, are a vital tool in
the guidance of both teacher and his/her students. In the sense that the
teacher who conducted the assessment or a substitute teacher in their place can
read these documents and determine which students would benefit from
help. These documents you may ask, include writing portfolios, rubrics,
and journals (diaries, learning logs, response journals), In the end, improvements
in weak areas, will equate to students becoming exceptional writers, because
planning will be directed toward assisting these weak areas.
Visit these educational websites to learn about easy ways to evaluate pupils' writing:
https://www.landmarkoutreach.org/blog-post/assessing-writing-challenges-and-strategies/
Simple
Ways to Assess the Writing Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities |
Reading Rockets
The Caribbean
Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training (Caribbean CETT) rubric for scoring
writing samples has a four-point scale representing four levels of competency. Seven
criteria were created as a result, and they are as follows: elaboration,
organization, unity, and coherence; responsiveness to prompt: ideas and
development; sentence structure and diversity; grammar, usage, and spelling;
punctuation; vocabulary; and presentation and penmanship.
As the teaching of Lit102, come to a close I must say everything I have learned will definitely benefit me as a teacher, not forgetting my colleagues as well and most importantly our students in the future. How bitter-sweet it may be I can say I have accomplished this stage of my life all while educating others about what I myself have been taught which has led me to do other research that has been shown time and time again in each of my blogs. Overall, Lit102 was a great course, thanks to the lecturer who broke it all down for us.
Now you have learned a lot from me, learning a lot from LIT102. Overall, what was the best lesson you've grasped within Lit102?
The resources that you provided for supporting writing were very informative in my opinion. The automated spelling checker would be of great assistance to those who struggle with their spelling.
ReplyDeleteLol it was the greeting for me! The rubric definitely stood out for me. I have been trying to wrap my brain around the many different types and how I can effectively incorporate them into my classroom. In the portfolios as well, I can see my students having a blast creating and putting together their various pieces for presentation.
ReplyDeleteNi Hao! Yes! Yes! Yes! Just as how we would create reading environments for our students to improve their reading skills, then so should we create writing environments to aid them in improving their writing skills. With a writing corner, and writing materials as you mentioned, creating a writing environment seems very much possible. What I would recommend would be to keep the writing area clean and clear from distractions. As teachers, we know how easily our students can become distracted. Distraction in my opinion poses the mightiest of threats to a child's learning. Thank you so much for sharing, and I hope my suggestions would also serve as a kind reminder :) Take care!
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