the concept of how to teach writing for english young learners

2. Teachingwritingactivities
Controlled writing
activities
• Straight Copying
• Matching
• Organizing and copying
• Delayedcopying
• Dictation
Guided written
activities
• Fill in exercise
• Dictation
• Letters/cards/invitation
s
Free writing
activities
• Word stars
• Vocabulary charts

3. Straightcopying
• Copying activity gives the teachers the
chance to reinforce language that has been
presented orally or through reading
• Ask pupils to read aloud to themselves when
they are copying the words
• For pupils who have difficulties, teacher can
start them by tracing words

4. Matching
• Straight copying by asking pupils to
match pictures and texts.
• Choose which sentence they want to
write about the text.
For example, pupils might choose from the
three possibilities about the picture:
• He likes cooking.
• He is a good cook.
• He is making a nice meal with eggs and
onions.

6. Organizingandcopying

7. Delayedcopying
• It is for training short term visual memory
Write a
short
familiar
sentence on
the board
Give the
pupils a few
second to
look at it
Then rub it
out from the
board
Ask the
pupils to
write what
they have
seen

8. Dictation
Keep the language elementary and simple
Provide the actual language as well as the
context
• be short
• be made up pf sentences which can be said in one breath
• Have a purpose, and be connected to work which has gone
before or comes after
• Be read or said at normal speed
For the young learners, dictation should:

9. Fill-inexercise
• It is useful activities at the beginner stage.
• It does not require much active production of language
because most of the language is given but it requires
understanding
• It can be used to focus on specific language items:
prepositions or question forms
• It can be used for vocabulary work

10. Example of fill-in exercise
• For example, if the pupils are familiar with the words
for pets and a few adjectives, then this text has
meaning even though there is no picture to put it in
the context.

11. GuidedDictation
• You might like to dictating only half of a sentence and ask the pupils
to complete it in their own way
• You can either ask the pupils to complete each sentence before you
read the beginning of the sentence which encourages quick writing
• This type of exercise is a good starting point for pre-writing stages
for free writing

12. Letters/cards/invitations
• This activity is a useful way of getting pupils
to write short meaningful pieces of writing.

13. Wordstars
• Put the key word on the board
• Put the class into groups and ask them to write down all
the words they can think about connected with dogs
• Some pupils they don’t know the English word for, just
let them write in their L1 and teacher can fill it in English
later.
• When all the groups have made their word stars, you
can do one on the board for everyone.
• This gives the whole class not only words, but also ideas
about what to write.

14. Vocabularycharts
• Simple drawing or pictures with vocabulary
collections are fun for pupils
• It is easy to make and always useful reminders
of the words
• Pupils can try a sentence or two beside their
labelled drawings
• We can used a picture to collect vocabulary, and
also a photograph, a story, or a song.
• The aim is to give the pupils as many words and
ideas as possible before they start on the actual
writing task.

15. Vocabularycharts