TOPIC 8 : Planning for Teaching Writing

What will lead to improvement in a student's writing?

• Teacher focuses on language errors made by students in their writing.

• Teacher assigns a familiar topic for students to write on autonomously.

• Teacher engages and interacts with students in the process of writing and gives feedback mid-writing.

• Teacher gives feedback in the form of summative comments, once the writing is finished.

One of the ways in teaching writing is that we should focus on the product, not the writing process.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Yetta Goodman (1988) Writing Development in Young Children says there are THREE overlapping principles in writing development which are

Below are the development of Literacy Pedagogies EXCEPT for

• The approach was discarded in favour of ‘natural’ learning by ‘doing’ writing.

• Uses the same approach which thinks that the process of writing is not as important as the product.

• The introduction of the National Curriculum began to shift back towards the formal approach, a move which was completed by the implementation of the National Literacy Strategy in 1999.

• Traditional pedagogies stressed formal correctness of grammar & syntax.

Based on the tips given by Laura Turner on ‘How to Write A Lesson Plan’, what should you consider while preparing for your lesson?

i. List down the materials you need for the class

ii. Plan lesson based on students’ interest

iii. Break your lesson in 3 parts

iv. Prepare a complete script to teach your lesson

• i and ii

• ii, iii and iv

• i and iii

• All of the above

What are the positive effects from creative openings?

i.  Increase concentration

ii. Increase motivation

iii. Stimulate curiosity

iv. Foster imagination

• ii and iii

• i, ii and iv

• ii, iii and iv

• i and iii

What are the three main stages in planning a writing skills lesson?

            i.  Lead in/warmers

            ii. Scanning for meaning 

            iii. Pre teach vocabulary(if necessary)

            iv. Skimming for gist

• i, iii and iv

• i, ii and iii

• ii, iii and iv

• All of the above

Which of the following activities is NOT a lead in/warmers activity?

• Charades

• Hot & Cold

• Mime

• Song Snippet

“Teacher asks students to form a group and discuss an image provided by the teacher.”

This statement refers to

• Talk for Writing

• Modelling

• Reading for Writing

• Grammar

These following activities are included in Pre-teaching Vocabulary EXCEPT

• Brainstorm

• Visual-word matching

• Word-definition matching

• Topic related questions