By

  •  Writing Strategies

Hey everybody 🙋

Let's talk about Writing Strategies

Becoming strategic is an important characteristic of learning. Students learn all sorts of 

cognitive strategies. Most cognitive strategies have direct application to writing, in this way

students' growing awareness about thinking and their writing are mutually supportive.

Here are some Writing Strategies

  • Elaborating - this where writers expand their ideas by adding more details . This strategy is most beneficial during drafting, when students are writing their ideas  and notice their writing lacks more details.

  • Evaluating -  writers review and evaluate their own writing by setting goals. During the writing process, writers review to see if it matches their intended meaning.

    • Formatting - this is where writers design the layout of their final writing.  The writer may also include pictures to enhance the text, make sure the front is clear to read and highlights titles.

    • Generating - this is where writers use a collection of words, sentences and ideas for writing, the information that the writer  collected is through research, or other classroom resources.

    • Monitoring - writer's observe their progress and coordinate writing strategies. This meta cognition strategy  plays the role of a supervisor.

    • Narrowing - this is where writer's manage and limit their topic to a specific one.

    • Organizing - writer's sequence their writing and put together ideas.

    • Proofreading - writer's carefully reread their writing to identify errors in spelling and other conventions.

    • Questioning -  writer's  question themselves as they develop their witting piece.

    • Rereading - this is where writer's review their writing to check the flow of ideas and whether they met their goals or not.

    • Setting Goals - set action to oriented goals to direct their writing.

    Writing Strategies

    Activities

    Elaborating

    Locate more information in books

    Evaluating

    Complete rubrics and checklist

    Formatting

    Use word processing software

    Generating

    Make a list

    Monitoring

    Get feedback from the teacher

    Narrowing

    Create a graphic organizer

    Organizing

    Make an outline

    Proofreading

    Use a red pen to edit

    Questioning

    Have open ended question with self

    Setting Goals

    Make a list of goals

     

     

     I love these strategies, they are effective, using them can guide students to become better writers.


    Comments

    1. KimberlyOctober 15, 2021 at 10:35 PM

      I agree that these strategies are very effective. Once implemented properly, they iron out all the hang ups teachers and students have about writing and teaching writing

      ReplyDelete
    2. Sherry-annOctober 18, 2021 at 10:39 AM

      Becoming strategic is truly an important characteristic of learning. I believe this is especially important with the literacy skills, inclusive of writing as, like reading, lends its skills to the development of other subject/content areas. These writing strategies are imperative to our students becoming strategic writers and learners. Including these sample activities go a long way in helping us teachers better understanding what each strategy looks like.

      ReplyDelete
    3. UnknownNovember 21, 2021 at 10:19 PM

      As you identified the different writing strategies which helps to refine students writing and make them more proficient writers.

      ReplyDelete
    4. UnknownNovember 21, 2021 at 10:22 PM

      Good job, these writing strategies that you have identify are important helping student refine their writing and improve their final product.

      ReplyDelete

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    Descriptive Writing

    By
    Image
      Hello all!     We're off again on another exciting writing journey. Am here this week to share with you another creative and enriching way in which we, as teachers, can promote  good writing skills in our students, to make the experience more exciting, more meaningful, more enjoyable and especially pain-free for them. Based on this week's very informative and interactive class sessions, our blog post this week will focus on one of the many types of writing that our students often engage in. It will also inform us as to how we could ensure they become competent in such writing task. This type of writing of which I speak is one that engages the use of the five senses, using sensory words to create in the reader's mind a clear and vivid image of the characters, objects, places, events, experiences and even feelings that he/she may be trying to portray. In other words, it gives detailed descriptions of whatever is being written about. Can you guess that which I speak of?    H
    Read more
    By
    Image
      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
    Read more
    By
    Image
     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
    Read more