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TOPIC 2 : DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGES OF WRITING
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Writing Readiness
Writing readiness refers to a stage ina childs early life where he displays
signs of wanting to put his thoughtsor ideas into visual forms.
These visual forms may initially looklike doodles,squiggles, crooked linesor even drawings of stick figures.
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representations of a childs:
knowledge a realization that he can put his thoughts into
words which greatly increases his growingknowledge of the world around him
interest beginning to discover the interesting fact that
writing is another form of communication
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visual readiness beginning to recognize shapes and numbers as
well as distinguish letters in the alphabet
visual memory
beginning to recognize one or two syllablewords (cat, rabbit)
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motor and coordination skills- beginning to display a dominant writing hand
(eg: being left or right-handed)- motor coordination of the hand, wrist, elbow
and shoulder when writing- displaying eye and hand coordination skills.
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Many preschool activities that just seem likefun are actually building fine motor skills andeye/hand coordination. Here are 10 examplesof activities:
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Many preschool activities that just seem like fun are actuallybuilding fine motor skills and eye/hand coordination. Here are10 examples of activities:
* Working withPuzzlesBuilding with blocks* Pouring water into cups
*Stringing beadsFinger painting* Bouncing and catchingballs* Cutting withscissors * Drawing* Matching shapes*Threading sewing cards
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Penmanship
Penmanship is the technique of writingwith the hand using a writing instrument
(pencil, pen, crayon, brush). It is crucial that children are taught the
skills of penmanship despite the fact,
that computer-printed documents havegreatly reduced the need for handwrittenwork.
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Techniques of good handwritinginclude:
space between letters, words,
paragraphs alignment proportion, size, height of letters
(upper case, lower case letters) direction of pen movements
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Early Writing
During this stage of writing, a child begins todevelop basic understanding of the mechanicsof writing.
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Effective writing requires a sound understandingof the mechanics of good writing. A usefulanalogy in thinking about the mechanics of
writing is that of driving a car. Importantinformation includes the various components of the car (parts of
speech in writing)
how these components function together (therules of grammar)
what is needed to keep the car moving along,stopping and starting in the right places, andpausing whenever it is necessary (punctuation)
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Sentence construction and paragraphwriting
An integral part of writing is theability to construct sentences and
paragraphs. It is important for a teacher or parent
to teach a child to write usingsystematic methods and variousactivities.
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The main principles in teachingchildren to write are :
provide meaningful context for writing
- create opportunities for children to write,examples birthday card to daddy, thank youcard to grandma, writing shoppinglists,copying food labels
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give children insights into writing
- create an awareness and develop a deeperunderstanding of the various forms and functionsof writing
develop childrens curiosity and thinking skills- encourage the desire to put their thoughts into
writing for example, a child writes a simple poemexpressing his sadness that the local council hascut down his favourite tree in the park
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read to children
- reading aloud and participatory reading ofstories provide rich resources for children todevelop ideas to write as well as increasingtheir vocabulary range. Adults (teachers,parents, grandparents) need to set aside timeand take the effort to read to children.
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Developmental Writing
During this stage of writing, a child progressesinto a deeper understanding of the mechanicsof writing which includes the following:
spelling grammar text organization and cohesion
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Spelling
When it comes to teaching children to spell,there is no magical method but a practicalapproach is to integrate spelling in listening,speaking, reading & writing.
When teaching spelling, the teacher shouldfocus on :
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teaching the relationship between the most
common phonemes (sounds) of English &graphemes (letters) teaching the most common words. developing visual memory for shapes of
words. developing relevant dictionary skills. helping pupils devise ways of helping
themselves to remember common but sometrouble words.
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Grammar
It is essential that children are taughtgrammar rules to enable them to be betterwriters. Teachers can refer to a range ofresources for ideas to teach grammarmeaningfully and enjoyable.
E d h
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Expose your students to the properuse of English grammar.
Children will internally develop grammar rules on theirown through exposure to the language. Its your responsibility as the teacher to provide this
exposure. This means always modeling proper grammar in your
speech and writing. If you dont want your students to make errors in
subject- verb agreement, dont make these errorsyourself. Also, get your students reading as much as possible.
Good writers do a lot of reading.
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Dictation as a Writing Exercise
Dictation is a time-proven technique in writingpractice. It may seem conventional or evenoutdated in this age of information technologybut this technique is beneficial in many ways.
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Text structure and organization
The term text structure refers to howinformation is organized in a text orpassage.
Information is organized according tocertain patterns/format.
Writers (as well as readers) need to knowthe various patterns/format to enablethem to write accordingly.
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Here are seven common textstructures:
cause and effect choronological compare and contrast order of importance
problem and solution sequence/process writing spatial/descriptive writing