Promoting Writing in Primary Grades LIT102

    Writing should be integrated through all subjects. This will help students make connections between different concepts, and synthesize information in a new way. In this week class discussion, we looked at a new genre expository writing. Expository writing is factual and conveys and explain information about the world. This type of writing is intended to interact with people through the written word whether by magazine, articles, newspaper etc... when composing any expository writing one should always have an introduction, body and conclusion and includes five (5) text structures. Text structures refer to the way the author organize information in text. they are: Description- describe a topic by listing characteristics, features and examples. Sequence- information is written in chronological order, words like (first, second, next, then and finally) are used when doing sequence. Comparison-  this structure is used to explain how two or more things are alike or different...

  Expository Writing Hey everybody 👋👋   Today’s Blog is about Expository Writing. What is Expository Writing? Expository Writing is a factual way to convey information about the world. The information can be use to describe, explain, define, or otherwise inform a reader about a specific subject . However it may include steps, compare two things and explain a change using causes and effects. Here are some characteristics of Expository Writing students should know v   Focus on a single topic v   Apply expository text structures to organize your writing and cue words to guide readers v   Introduce a topic, state the focus and grab reader’s   attention in the first paragraph v   Present information using topic sentences, supporting facts and specific details in the middle paragraphs. v   Insert smooth transitions between paragraphs or sections v   Sum up your ideas and make a final comment about the topic in the conclus...

This week's writing class took us a step further on the path of becoming expert writers and teachers of writing. So far on our journey we have encountered and discussed a wealth of helpful tools, critical to the betterment of our own, as well as the successful development of our students' writing. We've journeyed through, learning how to become expert writers in our classrooms -writing along with our students; reacquainting ourselves with the stages of the writing process and the six traits of writing; implementing and running a successful writer's workshop, and more recently (last week), we ventured into furthering our knowledge and skills in teaching different genres of writing, namely the descriptive genre.  This week, we explored yet another genre. This is one that I believe is  most basic and common to our primary grade students. It is one that they interact with in all reading assignments in their language arts classes and almost all other content areas across the...

To another week of blogging. Boy do I have an exciting topic for you this week! but before I go into this week post let us recap what we have learned so far. For the past seven weeks I have been blogging about writing, writing and more writing. We have discussed that teachers need to become their own experts in writing in order to effectively teach writing, writing workshops this is where students are taught the writing process, the best practices for teaching writing, not forgetting the 6 + 1 traits if writing, this in my opinion the most effective tool in assessing students writing instead of using a rubric which only focus on students grammar and mechanics. The 6 +1 traits of writing focus on the way students use their word choice, organization, voice, convention, ideas, sentence fluency and presentation. we also touched on writing strategies (I think the name is self- explanatory) and descriptive writing where students need to make sure their writing include all five senses to enga...

  Narrative Writing Hi everybody  Last week we talked about Descriptive Writing, Guess what we are going to talk about this week.? Yes Narrative Writing. N arrative Writing -  is a way of presenting connected events in order to tell a good story. Narrative Writing contain a begining, middle and end. There are five elements of narrative writing.  Plot - this is most important becaues it is the story structure. The Plot can be divided into the begining, middle and end.  Characters - t he characters are the individuals that the story is about.  The setting is the location, weather, time, and time period of the action. Theme is   the main idea in the story .  The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these elements. Point of view - is  the “eye” or narrative voice through which you tell a story . When you write a story, you must decide who is telling the story, and to whom...

Descriptive Writing 👍😊

  Writing strategies                                In order for students to become better writers there are several writing strategies which can be implement to improve some include: Elaborating, Evaluation, rereading, revising, formatting, generating, monitoring, narrowing, organizing, proof reading, Questioning, setting goals.  Elaborating - Focuses on the development of ideas using examples, quotes, and giving specific details.  Evaluating - With this strategy the writer reflects on the material he/she is working on. They may use a rubric to check if they are meeting the required standard.  Generating - With this strategy the writer gains and collects ideas, data, examples whether from their personal experience or from their research. There are several activities that may generate ideas an example is brainstorming.  Questioning - With this strategy the writer questions themsel...