Promoting Writing in Primary Grades LIT102

  Creating a Climate for Writers   Welcome Back Everybody.   Today is our last Blog. The topic for this week Blog is “ Creating a Climate for Writers.” When a butterfly egg is hatched in a proper environment, It has everything needed to thrive. When a child enters the writing world, He has everything he needs to become an effective author. In a student centered classroom, the climate must be conducive to writing. It should be comfortable and an exciting place for any student author. Lessons should include activities that motivate and challenge the young authors. In addition, strategies, materials, and tools are used to intrigue the writers. The students feel secure in taking risks with their ideas and skills during writing exercises. They understand the value of writing to learn and communicate ideas. They view their mistakes as opportunities to improve. Where the teacher will take the time out to guide, provide feedback and allow them to work at their own pace. In doi

  Hi guys, we have come to the end of a wonderful journey, a journey where we explored the different writing genres from persuasive to descriptive and others, the 6 + 1 writing traits and also some best practices teachers used in the classroom. The past ten weeks have taught me so many things and I hope by interacting with my blogs you also benefitted from the information disseminated.  In our final session of LIT102, my colleagues and myself looked at an article titled "Creating a Climate for Writing", by now you have guess what this week blog is about. Today I will be blogging about my understanding of the article, what stood out to me and suggestions that will help teachers, teach writing effectively. Before teachers and students engage in any form of writing, the teacher must first ensure that the classroom atmosphere is conducive for writing. When students feel more secure and safe in a classroom, then they will be more willing to take risk with their ideas and skills wi

             HELLO EVERYONE  Am here once again to share with you on another exciting writing genre that was explored in our LIT102 class. This week the writing train's next stop was at ...... Surely we are all aware as to what this type of writing is about and have engaged in it several times. This short video below, will give you a brief reminder of it. Simply put, persuasive writing is writing done with the main purpose of convincing someone to take the writers viewpoint on something or to get them to take action about something. More commonly in my opinion, it is the written form of our begs and appeals to get something we want.  Sounds easy to do right? Especially the begging part, since most children/humans if not all , have that natural instinct to beg in one way or another. However, the act of persuading is not as easily done in writing as done orally, and because we ourselves often times have trouble with it, we have difficulties teaching it to our students who in turn hav

 Persuasive Writing This week blog is about Persuasive Writing. Persuasive is a part of everyday life. What is Persuasive Writing? Persuasive writing is a written form of an oral debate and can be a fun and interesting style of writing for students. Persuasive writing is used to convince or persuade a reader that the writer’s opinion of a topic or cause is correct. Persuasive Writing presents an argument, and when it’s effective, writers are convincing, swaying readers to their viewpoint or take action. When students engage in persuasive writing students must 💢Use a “hook” to grab reader’s attention 💢State a clear position 💢Support your view point with facts, examples and other evidence. 💢Address alternative positions and counterarguments 💢Conclude with a summary of their argument and an appeal to readers. Engaging in persuasive writing also helps students improve skills such as different styles of writing, writing structure, doing research, and forming evidenc

  Welcome back to another exciting week of blogging. In today's blog I will be discussion an important writing genre.  In our LIT session this week, my classmate and I explored a new genre of writing. Do you want to guess what it is? Did you say Poetry? 👎, try again....Persuasive writing is correct. Do you know what is persuasive writing?  then come with me as we explore the many wonders of persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is the ability to coax or convinced readers to agree with the authors viewpoint, it is often presented in an argument form.  We also looked at the characteristics students should have in their written pieces. They are: 👉 Include a hook to grab readers attention. 👉 Ensure that their position is clearly stated. 👉 Present evidence and examples to support claim. 👉 Counterarguments are refuted. 👉 A summary is used to conclude the written piece As I reflect on what was discuss so far, I came to the realization that persuasive writing and argument are the sa

Welcome Back to Another Writing Adventure.  On our last trip, we boarded the writing train and explored the exciting genre of Narrative Writing. In our class sessions this week, we continued the journey to learn more about the skills and techniques of another very important and exciting genre that must be passed on to our students to make them successful writers. This is  a very powerful genre of which I speak, as it integrates language arts into all  content areas at every grade level from pre-school to university. In this blog, I will share with you  some  skills and techniques, some we are familiar with and some new that helped to further enhance my knowledge and skills  as a writing teacher. So off we go on our journey. What is Expository Writing?   The author of the text: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product defines expository writing as " used to explain a something, provide instruction or present information." I learnt also that it also describes a process.