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Writing (The Writing Traits (Voice: The tone of teh piece this is the…
Writing
The Writing Traits
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Organization: The internal structure of the piece. This involves the beginning, middle and end.
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Conventions: the mechanical correctness, this includes spelling grammar and punctuation
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The writing traits should also be presented through mentor texts. By using a reading to inspire writing the text can become co-teachers an a source of inspiration for the lesson that model the best writing. A mentor text can include novels, sign, picture book, advertisement, newspaper
The Writing Process
Feedback: This is a process where the teacher can walk around giving informal conversation to encourage and expand students ideas. Students may also get feedback from their peers.
Drafting: This is the phase that includes writing, editing, and revising.This process will help children recognize conventions and learn from their mistakes.
Prewriting: this is the time where students gather their ideas and have planning time, this can be through making lists, drawing pictures, and talking to other students to discuss their ideas
Presentation: This is the last phase of the writing process which involves presenting, publication or celebration. Here you can take your work home and show your parents or share with friends.
This process is critical because students should be proud of their work and when they get to share it with family they feel very proud of themselves.
Using a picture book as a mentor text are very useful to introduce the writing process. It sparks ideas for their own work.
Forms of Writing
Narrative (Fiction), Expository (Informational Writing), Persuasive, explanation, procedural, Expressive and Poetry.
These forms of writing are very important in the classroom because it gives students the opportunity to explore different writing styles
In the classroom it is important to allow your students to use multiple forms of writing and have different ways to introduce these forms.
Talk
Talk helps students learn to make their "inner ideas". When students are given the opportunity to talk they can bounce their ideas off each other and which encourages the writing process
My opinion has grown with this idea because I used to be shy about my writing but after doing the activity in class where we could talk with a partner then write then share our writing later gave me a different point of view and made me realize how important it is because writing is all about ideas.
Halliday suggests that through talk students learn how to make meaning and social interaction is very important when writing.
Assessment
Informal Assessment
This is very important to include throughout the year, this is where you observe during the writing process. As a teacher you can make checklists, student self-assessments, anecdotal records which include detailed and describing writing events with dates but does not include an evaluation
As a preservice teacher I learned how important and helpful a writing portfolio can be. This includes the students completed writing files with work in progress, suggested topics, poems, and letters. A portfolio contains a collection of the students finished work
Formal Assessment
Product based assessment: analyzes student writing samples for the purpose of comparing writer abilities, and to find out what learners know and are capable of.
Holistic Assessment: general impression marking: find where the piece fits into the range of papers, this evaluates what students do well and encourages teachers to focus on specifics for evaluation and instruction. This is a way to get to know the writer and their range.
Throughout this process it is important to look at the students ideas to see if they are well supported, organized, original.
Analytic Scales: this breaks the writing down into components or traits (content or ideas, organization). You assess the traits using a rubric that describes specific characteristics.
Rubrics can determine what a student needs to work on to improve writing, as well as to identify topics for mini-lessons to help students grow as writers
Throughout this course, I have learned how vital Formal and Informal assessment is. The variety of ways you can assess students is essential. I like how by keeping formal and informal assessment you can hold yourself and the students accountable and show to the school or parents.
Teaching perspective
My thinking about writing has grown in so many ways throughout this course. First I realized how important talk is, this can be with peers, through a story, or with the teacher. The writing traits are also prominent throughout writing in the classroom. The most important thing throughout the process is the student's ideas. If they can form ideas they can adjust their writing. I enjoy all the resources there are for teaching reading and how to develop students writing through this process
This class has motivated me to use multiple strategies to develop student's ideas, voice, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. I think it is a great idea to structure writing around a mentor text then discuss between peers. This allows students to see a strong example of writing then discuss ideas with their peers. Once their ideas are developed then we can work on conventions but the ideas must come first