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    1. Teaching Writing as an Integrated Skill Erin Lowry CCA In-Service Training January 16, 2009
    2. Overview
      • Ideas for integrating more writing activities into your lessons
      • How to adapt textbook activities
    3. Writing for Learning
      • Reinforcement writing
      • Preparation writing
      • Activity writing
    4. Writing for Writing
      • Objective is to help students become better writers and learn how to write in various genres using various registers
        • Includes the following
          • Handwriting
          • Orthography
          • Punctuation
          • More…
    5. Writing Subskills
      • Writing accurately
        • Spelling correctly
        • Forming letters correctly
        • Writing legibly
        • Punctuating correctly
        • Using correct layouts
        • Choosing the right vocabulary
        • Using grammar correctly
        • Joining sentences correctly
        • Using paragraphs correctly
    6. Writing for Writing
      • What’s the purpose? Invented or real?
      • For an exam?
      • Creative writing?
    7. Tasks for Writing Teachers
      • Demonstrating
      • Motivating and provoking
      • Supporting
      • Responding
      • Evaluating
    8. What Students Need to Write
      • Information & task information
      • Language
      • Ideas
      • Patterns & schemes
      J. Harmer (2004), pp. 62-63
    9. Writing Continuum
    10. Writing Process Pre-writing Writing Peer Editing Revising Rewriting Proofreading Finished Writing
    11. Example from AIO Pre-Int , Unit 2
      • Rewrite the letter in #1 to make it sound positive
      • Describe a vacation destination and why you would go there in 50 words
      • Anecdote: tell a partner about the best city you’ve ever visited (originally a speaking activity)
    12. Example from Top Notch 3 , Unit 6
      • Write about a historic disaster
      • Provide instructions on preparing for a disaster
      • Explain the factors that contribute to the severity of an earthquake
    13. Sentence & Paragraph
      • Sentence production
      • Paired sentences
      • Paragraph construction
      • Controlled text construction
      • Free text construction
    14.  
    15. Group Writing
      • Write the starter sentence on the board and have each student give you a sentence to continue the story.
        • As you go around the room the story will develop.
        • Students give the sentence orally and the teacher writes it on the board.
      • Rewriting and expanding sentences
    16. Sentence Starters
      • Often when we ask our students to write about something they freeze
        • My favorite month of the year is…
        • The best movie I’ve ever seen is…
        • One of the most exciting things that has ever happened to me is…
    17. Writing Storms
      • Something funny that happened to me this week
      • What I really hate!
      • My favorite thing
      • A surprise I had
      • A landscape
      • A building
      • A memory from childhood
      • My best friend
      • My boss
    18. Graphic Organizers
      • Common language classroom g.o. functions
      • Describing
      • Comparing and contrasting
      • Classifying
      • Sequencing
      • Cause and effect
      • Decision Making
      • Common designs
      • Cluster/Word Web
      • Describing Wheel
      • Fact and Opinion
      • Five W's Chart
      • KWL/KWHL Chart
      • Sequence Chart
      • Spider Map
      • Tree Chart
      • Venn Diagram
    19. Using Pictures
      • Describing pictures
      • Suspects and objects
      • Write the postcard
      • Portraits
      • Story tasks
    20. Portraits http://www.365portraits.com
    21. Sequence of Pictures
    22. Writing Poems
      • Acrostic poems / alphabetic poems
      • Stem / frame poems
      • Metaphor generators
      • Model poems
    23. Example Poems
      • Hockey
      • H ockey is my favorite sport
      • O n the ice or street
      • C ool and fun
      • K eep on playing
      • E xercise and stronger
      • Y ou should try 
      • My Favorite Things
        • A is for armadillos that I like to watch but don’t want to eat
        • B is for batter of cookies (which I do eat)
        • C is for cat (I miss mine a lot)
    24. Dictogloss
      • Students re-create a text or story that the teacher reads to them
            • Ss get into groups to re-formulate the content – grammar can be different but they should try to maintain integrity of information
    25. Dialogue Journals & Blogs
      • Written conversations in which a learner and teacher (or other writing partner) communicate regularly
        • Learners write as much as they choose on a wide range of topics and in a variety of genres and styles
        • Teacher writes back regularly, responding to questions and comments, introducing new topics, or asking questions
      http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/Dialogue_Journals.html
    26. Writing to Each Other
      • Penpals / Keypals
      • Emails
      • Live chat
      • Forums
    27. Comics and Graphic Novels
    28. M. Satrapi. The Complete Persepolis .
    29. G. Larson. The Far Side.
    30.  
    31. W. Senft Writing 4 3 2 1 You planned before writing. Web has 5 or more details. Web has 3 or 4 details. Web is incomplete. Did not complete a web. You wrote about the correct topic. Stayed on topic and followed your plan. Stayed on topic, but forgot a few details from your plan. Wrote about a different topic. Did not hand in a paper. You used simple past tense correctly. 2 mistakes or fewer 3-4 mistakes 5-6 mistakes Did not hand in a paper. You ended sentences with periods. 2 mistakes or fewer 3-4 mistakes 5-6 mistakes Did not hand in a paper.
    32. Sample Rubrics Online
      • ESL Writing 001 from Rubistar
      • FUHSD Writing Rubrics—Samples
      • The Rubric Bank from Chicago Public Schools
      • Teach-nology's Rubric Generators
    33. Resources
      • Campbell, C. (1998). Teaching Second Language Writing: Interacting with the Text . Heinle & Heinle.
      • Ferris, D.R. & Hedgcock, J.S. (2005). Teaching ESL Composition . Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
      • Harmer, J. (2004). How to Teach Writing . Pearson Education.
      • Herrin, J. (2007). Task-based Activity Templates for Engaging Multi-level Learners . Training given by ELF 2006-07 in Kyiv.
      • King, J.M. (2007). Teaching Reading and Writing . Course taught by ELF 2006-07 in Turkmenistan.
      • Olsher, D. (1996). Words in motion: An interactive approach to writing . Oxford Univeristy Press.
      • Omaggio Hadley, A. (2001). Teaching language in context (3 rd ed.). Thomson Heinle.
      • Pavlik, C. & Keenan Segal, M. (2007) Interaction 1 Writing, Silver Edition . McGraw Hill.
      • Senft, W. (2007). Teaching and Assessing Writing . Training given by ELF 2007-08 in Costa Rica.
      • Slagoski, J. (2007). Communicative Writing Activities . Training given by ELF 2006-07 in Russia.

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