Teaching+Writing

= TEACHING WRITING =

As mentioned earlier, the Teacher should endeavour to keep writing fun. Students will take more out of each lesson/task if they enjoy it. They are less likely to learn nearly as much if they are doing something that they do not enjoy.

Teaching Approaches to Writing
When teaching children to write, you should remember the four main teaching approaches. In order of difficulty, they are Modelled Writing, Shared and Interactive Writing, Guided Writing and Independent Writing. Teachers would start off with Modelled writing and work their way through the approaches as the children become more comfortable and confident.

Modelled Writing
For this stage, the teacher would put up a piece of paper and “models the technique they want to teach” (Hill, p300). They would talk through the process, always involving the children by asking questions such as; How should I begin?, What word might sound better?, Is there anything I could change?, and so on. This is also a good way to teach different ways of laying out pieces, such as for letters and scripts and "ecourage students to use the text type during independent writing sessions" (Cloonan, Scull & Turpin, 1998, p14).

Shared and Interactive Writing
For Shared Writing, the teacher shares the pen and “involves the children in the writing process” (Hill, p300). The writing is a lot more of the student’s ideas rather than the teachers. For the simple words, the teacher would use the pen, but for the harder words, they would get the students to come up and have a go.

Guided Writing
==== Here children are put into pairs or small groups, which are based on the children having the same specific needs that the teacher has noticed to the others in their group or pair. Each child takes notes individually, but is able to work together with the other person(s). ====

Independent Writing
==== As you have probably guessing, in this stage each child works individually on a topic of their own choice. The teacher roams the classroom, giving help to the students who require it. It is important for the teacher to sit on the student’s level when helping. ====