Sunday, 8 October 2017

LIT REFLECTION 1

LIT 102 REFLECTION 1  
Writing is an essential part of our everyday lives and participating in writing activities develops a person’s writing and comprehension skills. We were taught about the importance of writing on the lives of our future students and we were also taught about some different strategies we can use to help boost our students’ writing. We  also covered the different steps that can be taken to guide a student in becoming a successful writer. On the 21st of september, we did presentations on the different areas of the writing process and on the different elements of the writing workshop. All presentations were good but  there was a interesting one that stood out the most. This group used an author’s chair in their presentation of a workshop where they played the role of students reading their pieces while wearing an author’s hat.

     Following the reading, the teacher used a corner of the class as the publishing area to bring out the publishing stage  of the writing process. We thought that this was a great way of portraying the final stage in the writing process and we are of the opinion that students who engage in these activities are more willing to write and share their ideas. We also  learnt from that presentation  that  it gives students the chance to listen and learn from each other, help  students share their ideas on writing and to assist in developing better writing skills. We also noticed that using the author’s chair would allow the students to be more engaged, motivated and eager to participate. We are now more  knowledgeable about the different elements of the writing workshop and the importance of using the writing process to effectively improve students writing.
 As novice teachers, these presentations served us well. We learnt that children learn to write by writing, the more students write about their emotions, the better the chance of becoming critical thinkers. Therefore, when we were taught that when we go into our classrooms we have to incorporate writing in all of the subject areas and we have to be able to incorporate  the workshop and elements that it consists of to make our lessons more creative and help students to  grasp the concept quickly. Although, it is a  Language Arts classroom, it will be fun filled and the students will be able to learn from each other.



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