100 Ideas for Teaching Writing

100 Ideas for Teaching Writing Book Description

100 inspirational ideas for developing your pupils writing skills




Each one has been successfully tried and tested




Ideas range from developing an understanding of the writing process to setting interesting and entertaining tasks to engage your pupils.



Contents:




Section 1 General ideas


Writing and linguistic development
Thinking
Progression
Writing as product and as process
The roles of the writer
The demands of the writer and those of the reader
Who are we writing for?
Models
Teacher as role model
Writing as a process
What not to do

Section 2 The start of the process


Incubation
Free-writing
Intensive writing
Verbalization
Lists

Section 3 The planning and preparation process


Using diagrams
The grid
Word budgets
Using questions
Homework
Banning writing
Using the first language

Section 4 The drafting process


Teaching drafting by examples
Not starting at the beginning
Writing frames
Anything is better than nothing
Avoiding arbitray rules
Writers block
Writing as a solution to writers block

Section 5 The redrafting process


Sharing examples
Symbols for redrafting
Other ways of saying
Exploiting the imperfection of synonyms
Parentheses
Cutting
Pleonasms

Section 6 Completing the process


What not to do about spelling
What to do about spelling
Punctuation in general
Activating knowledge of symbols
Apostrophe of omission
Apostrophe of possession
Beginning to punctuate speech
Beyond inverted commas
Teaching checking
Presenting and publishing
Paired writing

Section 7 Tasks


(a) Setting tasks
A question of purpose
Genres and forms
Defining the audience
(b) Narrative
Narrative openings
The story of three objects
Designing plots
Epistolary fiction
Autobiography
Work experience
(c) Argument
On argument
Teaching the language of argument
Using drama in argument
Staging a trial
Parliament
Formal debate
Summaries
Logic
(d) Other non-fiction forms
Travel writing
Writing instructions
Reporting the news
Analogies
Business plan
(e) The Internet
Reviewing and evaluating websites
Planning a website
Designing a web page
Web poetry
(f) Response to text
Reviews
Writing about plot
Imitation
Forensic linguistics
Author study
Section 8 One-offs and fillers
Balloon debate
Writing in the second person
Your ideal room
Vocabulary and spelling games
Constructing texts by playing games

Section 9 Assessment


The place of assessment
Selecting and specifying criteria
Self-assessment
Using symbols for marking
Cross-hatching
Formative assessment, the art of
Designing assessment questions
Answering exam questions
Teaching the use of time in exams

Section 10 Resources and teacher development


Essential dictionaries
Specialized dictionaries
Materials
Sources of lesson ideas
Resources on teaching writing
Self-development
Letter to a new entrant to the profession
References

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