Teaching Writing to young learners Created By Mira

Teaching Writing to young learners Created By: Mira Ardeatika Siti Zuhriyanti Rusli Windy A. Montolalu J.

What is WRITING? . . . Writing is a combination of process and product (Sokolik, 2003). The process refers to the act of gathering ideas and working with them until they are presented in a manner that is polished and comprehensible to readers.

Background to the teaching of writing When you are teaching writing to young children who are four to seven years old, you must consider two areas of development.

The development of writing skills The process writing approach involves the process-steps necessary to produce a good quality final piece of writing.

Types of written text that children can produce

Types of written text that children can produce The writing process : � Prewriting � Writing � Revising � Editing � Publishing

The Writing Process: � Prewriting For every piece of writing there is always a prewrite activity. � Writing After we done the prewriting, the next step is to get thoughts and ideas down on paper. � Revising occurs when a writer looks for feedback from a teacher or another student (Vaca, and Gove 2000).

Example of Revising :

The Writing Process: � Editing Children have a hard time accepting that editing is necessary. Correcting children’s errors and helping children find and correct their own errors presents a real dilemma for teachers. � Publishing After a piece of writing has been edited, it is ready to be published. Publishing refers to putting the writing in a final finished format where it can be shared with others.

Classroom techniques and activities � Writing models � Grup writing � Talking and writing box � Writing centers � Writing conferences � Inventive spelling � Word walls

Classroom techniques and activities �Writing models Good writers are readers, and good writers read both fiction and nonfiction. Thus, you want to provide reading material that will model the type of writing your young learners will produce.

Writing Models Ex:

Classroom techniques and activities � Grup writing Children can work collaboratively on a writing project, but it needs to be carefully organized on the part of the teacher. You can show children how different members of the class contributed to a group story by writing the child’s initials next to each line he contributed.

Classroom techniques and activities � Talking and writing box The creation of the box is a prewriting activity in and of itself. � Writing centers A writing center with brightly colored pens and papers will often inspire children to write. The writing center can be used to inspire learners at every step of the writing process, as well as to help them develop the fine motor skills necessary to produce neat and legible writing. � Writing conferences One common and very useful way to help children with revising is with writing conferences. There can be one conference per piece of writing, or there can a series of conferences for a specific piece of writing. There will also be times when a student produces a piece of writing without any conferences.

Classroom techniques and activities � Inventive spelling Invented spelling refers to students’ attempts as spelling words based on their developing cognitive and literacy skills. � Word walls are list of words that the children have encountered in their reading and that can be used in their writing.

Writing in the classroom

Conclusion Writing as a process and a product were discussed as well as the physical act of forming letters. The different steps or stages of a process used to produce piece of written text were explored attention was paid to helping children become excited about writing by creating piece of written text that are representative of different genres raging from cereal box to stories. Specific suggestion for teaching and modeling writing were also provided for learners at different stage of language and literacy development, and a wide range of written product that children can produce were also included.

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