TEACHING WRITING

 Hello everyone, welcome to a new entry

Here we are again to talk about an interesting topic that is "TEACHING WRITING" This week we started with some handwriting exercises, so we can have a better idea of how to teach our students(in the future)  how to start writing. 

Writing involves many different aspects:

1. Handwriting

2. Spelling

3. Punctuation

4. Sentence construction

5. Organizing a text and paragraphing 

6. Text cohesion 

7. Register / style 

Also, the roles of the teacher are:

Monitor

Resource

Feedback provider

Approches to student writing

 Process and product

 Genre (intention) 

 Writing as a cooperative activity

 Building the writing habit (journaling) 

 Writing-for-learning and writing-for-writing

 Creative writing 

Also, we wrote about the best day of our life and one of our classmates verify if our spelling, punctuation, etc was correct, I wrote that the best day of my life was at the Hospital Zacamil on January 3rd, 2022 when I meet my son. Another activity that we did was a bread and butter note that basically is a thank you letter. These activities are really good when you are trying to teach writing skills, because students can work and pairs and get feedback from their classmates.

Lic Orlando asked us to be in groups and discuss the correct order of the grammar classes, we concluded that first teacher must provide an introduction of the topic, secondly provides examples, time to practice, the teacher must check if everything is correct and finally is important that the teacher always provides to students a recap of the topic.

We also started with the topic "teaching grammar and vocabulary"

We discussed some questions in groups

It's very important to study what grammar really means and how people can learn it, that is why that we concluded that grammar is the system and structure of a language. The rules of grammar help us decide the order we put words in and which form of a word to use. And in the future, we are going to be able to teach other people about all these topics using all the teaching methods that teacher Orlado is teaching us because everything is connected.

We recap about "deductively and inductively" where deductively means straight to the point and inductively leaning from the context. 

Teaching grammar deductively 

Teaching grammar inductively 

Why is vocabulary (lexis) important in the classroom?

Okay, so teaching writing and vocabulary can be a little tough because we as a teacher must dedicate time, and try to find the best teaching method that adapts to all students because not everyone learns the same way. But I believed the most important thing is to PRACTICE, ALWAYS TIME FOR PRODUCTION.

"The main aim of the teachers in teaching grammar is to teach the structure of the language systematically and make their students get good command over the language to produce the learned grammatical structures accurately when they use them in their real-life situations in either spoken or written form."

I hope you enjoy this entry, see you on the next one

With love, Kat