Writing and Reading

Teaching ELL’s writing: Here is a great resource where I was able to find many ideas and strategies for the writing process. My favorite strategy was guided writing; this process involves the teacher working with small groups of students and these students are applying what they are reading in the text. Students then share what they are learning in groups with varying teacher support and guidance. The teacher will begin the lesson by having students read an aspect of text. As they are reading they are looking at the grammar, punctuation, and spelling on their text. Next they use that piece to generate there our writing; based off that main idea or purpose of the text. The article also outlines the four ages of writing. This was interesting for me to read and it helped me learn how as a society we viewed and taught the writing process to our students. Personally for me it was interesting to see how the views of writing have changed over the years and how teachers’ conceptions of writing have changed, so have their teaching practices.
1960s Age of writing as production or encoding
1970s Age of writing as creativity
1980s Age of writing as a process
1990s Age of writing as social purpose
If you would like to learn more about the different writing processes taught here is my resource: http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/targeting.htm