On Thursday 28th of September, we learnt about several best practices for teaching writing and how they are interrelated with the stages of the writing workshop. For instance, the more children practice writing, the more their writing skills will develop. As novice teachers we learnt that when we go into our classrooms we should be able to model what we teach and talk through what we are doing as we write so that our students will follow in our footsteps. Also, we should always provide our students with opportunities to write about things that are of interest to them so that they will write more and explore their expressive qualities.
All teachers are teachers of writing no matter their specialization. During this week we learnt about the stages of writing development from the random letter to the proficient. This information was very important because as a teacher you must be able to identify the stage which students are at so you can take the necessary steps to help them.
Additionally we learnt about the six traits of writing (ideas, organization, word choice, voice, conventions, sentence fluency plus one presentation). After being taught the rationale behind the six traits, we were given information as to how we will assess the final pieces. We appreciated the way the information was presented and were very optimistic to finish the piece of work in the your turn section.When placed in a real life classroom, it is evident that there will be many mixed abilities and different learning styles of students within. Therefore this information will help us as teachers to better our chances of having successful lessons and effectively assist our future students.
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