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Student's Can Right If You Give Them a Chance

Learn effective methods to improve writing skills, including mechanics, language use, vocabulary, organization, and content. Discover ways to engage students and teach them how to write with clarity and organization. Explore various grammar and vocabulary concepts to enhance writing. Encourage reading and provide ample opportunities for students to practice and develop their writing abilities. Foster creativity through poetry, storytelling, and other writing activities.

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Student's Can Right If You Give Them a Chance

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  1. Write Student's Can Right If You Give Them a Chance Eric Cohen Books 2005

  2. What do we look for in good writing? • Mechanics: capitalization, spelling, punctuation, legible handwriting • Language use: correct order, tense agreement, number and function - articles, pronouns, prepositions, meaning not obscured by grammatical errors • Vocabulary: uses correct words - variety - appropriate word for topic • Organization: sequencing, topic sentence, body, conclusion • Content: main idea - details - knowledge of subject Eric Cohen Books 2005

  3. Getting them to write • Use their background knowledge • Use pictures they recognize • Use series of pictures that tell a story • Make up different stories with different outcomes from pictures – elicit ideas from them • Read stories to them • Teach them to how to use a dictionary • Guide them – one step at a time – don’t assume Eric Cohen Books 2005

  4. complete, clear and organized sentences correct grammar good spelling relevant vocabulary chunks of language / vocabulary use the dictionary When writing expect: Eric Cohen Books 2005

  5. Vocabulary and Writing • Basics = numbers, colors, cognates, classroom, homes, travel, communication, environment, current events • Prepositions + = in, on, under, up, down, over, above, the, a, some, many • Singular - plural = dog / dogs : picture / pictures : baby / babies • Chunking = on the chair, under the desk, in the tree Eric Cohen Books 2005

  6. Grammar and Writing • Basic grammar chunks = There are / There is He / She / It has : They haveHe is / She is / It / They are I /He/She was : You/We/They were • Proper Noun Substitutions = Dan is home. / He is home. • Connectors = and / or / but • Chunking = There are some / There is a/an • Present Tenses = sit / sits – am/is/are +ing • Past Tenses = was / were – walk/walked – write/wrote • Future Tense = will ride • Perfect Tenses = has / have seen Eric Cohen Books 2005

  7. Read – Read – Read Write examples on the board Always have the students answer and write in complete sentences. Lots of sequencing activities Teach – beginning / middle / end Give them lots of guided-writing activities Give each student a chance to do every writing assignment a second time - correct their mistakes. Give each student a list of general writing rules. Prepare a poster of these rules for the class. What can you do? Eric Cohen Books 2005

  8. Show / describe / write / read – You write, then they copy. Introduce poetry Create comic strips /stories/dialogues (scripts) Write radio news / weather script Write and/or present plays Have fun with writing Eric Cohen Books 2005

  9. Using Poetry Rain by Shel Silverstein I opened my eyesAnd looked up at the rain,And it dripped in my headAnd flowed into my brain,And all that I hear as I lie in my bedIs the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.I step very softly,I walk very slow,I can't do a handstand--I might overflow,So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head. Eric Cohen Books 2005

  10. What do you see? Eric Cohen Books 2005

  11. I see. . . • I see a girl with a _______ shirt. • I see a blue _______________. • I see a _______________ chair. • I see pink _________________. • I see a _________ __________. • I ___________________________. red, book, red, notebook, red, lamp, skates, pink, chair Eric Cohen Books 2005

  12. What are they talking about? Eric Cohen Books 2005

  13. What do you say to a new friend?Complete the conversation • Hi! My name is _____Anya__. • I am _______ years old.Where___________________? • I live in _____________.___________________________? • I have ____ brothers and ____ sisters.Do ___________________________? • What time? • _______________________ • Hi! I’m Dan. What is your name? • I’m _______ years old.How old are you? • I live in _____________._________________________? • Yes, I have 2 brothers and 1 sister.How many_________________? • Thanks, I’d like that. • ________________________. Eric Cohen Books 2005

  14. You can also teach that. . . • writing is a form of self-expression. • writing is a form of visual art. • writing is a form of developing imagination. • writing is . . . ECB Online - http://www.ecb.co.il/ecbonline/resources/writelit.html Adventure Club Stories Eric Cohen Books 2005

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