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Enhancing the Writing Process Through Interactive Activities

Learn strategies to improve writing skills, engage in fun writing exercises like Writing Roulette, and understand key principles of effective writing. Develop your voice and receive constructive feedback in a collaborative setting.

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Enhancing the Writing Process Through Interactive Activities

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  1. Info Supplied & Edited By:Dr.Comer Power Point Developed By: Courtney Bass TheWritingProcess

  2. TheWritingProcess • Planning: Gathering, shaping, organizing information. (Brainstorming, webbing, outlining, graphic organizers, looping, etc.) Students decide audience, purpose, and form. • Drafting: Writers put their ideas into print and find their voice. • Revising: Rethinking, reshaping, reordering of ideas. • Editing: Checking for clear, effective, grammatically correct writing. (Word choice and sentence fluency) • Proofreading:Checking for correct spelling, mechanics, etc.

  3. TheWritingPrinciples • Students learn to write by writing. • Writing activities should be integrated with curricula. • Teachers need to write with their students, modeling the writing process. • Students need to have opportunities to share their writing. • Writers need constructive feedback via questions (not criticism). • Students learn to write by reading excellent and varied writing. • Repeated successful encounters with writing help unmotivated learners.

  4. Writing Exercise • WritingRoulette

  5. WritingRoulette • Divide class into groups of 4 or 5, present students with 5 story starters. • Story starters: • It wasn’t supposed to… • The day my life… • Oh No! What have I… • It was the best of times, it was… • I never realized that…

  6. WritingRouletteCont. • Allow individual group members to choose any story starter they want. (It’s ok if more than one chooses the same story starter) • Instruct groups to begin writing; after 2 minutes, call time. (Students are to stop writing, even if they are in the middle of a word) • Exchange papers, read, and then continue writing where previous person stopped. • Call time again after 2 minutes of writing; continue the process (following previous format) until each writer gets his/her original paper back. • Original writer puts a conclusion on paper. Note: this is not timed. • Add 1 to 2 minutes on the time after each exchange to allow for reading. You may want to have each writer use a different color so that you can distinguish between them.

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