Teaching Writing (Recap)

Teaching Writing (Recap)

Multiple Choice

What approach to teaching writing in which students are encouraged to mimic a model text?

• PPP

• Process approach

• The communicative approach

• product approach

​Stage 1: Model texts

•The characteristic language of the genre (formal or informal, the expressions or vocabulary and grammar used to convey meaning)

•The linking words and transitions used to connect the sentences of the text.

•The format or layout of the text.

Activities for controlled writing practice

• Substitution box

• Transformation writing

• Matching

• Gap filling

• Sentence completion

• Questions and answers

• Write-it-up

• Recall

Multiple Choice

"Use the information in the table to write a paragraph about changes in the village." What activity is it?

• Transformation writing

• Write-it-up

• Substitution box

• Recall

Multiple Choice

"Rewrite the following postcard. Change some information about places, weather and activities." What activity is it?

• Write-it-up

• Substitution box

• Transformation writing

• Questions and answers

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Product approach

Stage 1:
Analyzing
model texts

Stage 2:

Controlled

writing practice

Stage 3:

Organization of

ideas

Stage 4:
Writing
practice

​The process approach

• stresses the creativity of the individual writer

• pays attention to the development of good writing practices rather than the imitation of models”

​Stages of a process writing lesson

Download the worksheet on LMS and work in pairs to put match the stages of a process writing lesson with their actitivies.

How to correct written errors

1. Teacher correction

2. Peer correction

3. Self-correction

4. Ignoring mistakes

5. Using correction codes/ symbols

​Study the example lesson plan

Study the writing lesson plan and discuss in your group whether it's a good lesson plan or not. Give some comments.