Promoting Writing in Primary Grades LIT102

Hi everybody!  Its our final journey on this exciting and adventurous train ride we took exploring the many wonders of teaching writing. I hope by now, like myself, you are more inspired and motivated to become a better writing teacher and promote more successful writers in your classroom.  On this journey, we take a look at some very important tips/ideas that will help us to set the right climate for our classroom writing activities. Our blog assignment this week for LIT102 is guided by an article we read which speaks to just that. It is entitled: Creating A Climate for Writing. In case you are wondering what this really means, I would share with you a brief summary of its content. I will also share a link below to which you can access this article and peruse it at your convenience. It's truly a very informative article.  From my understanding of the article, creating a climate for writing, simply means creating an environment or atmosphere that caters for the students different w

  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