Teaching Writing To Young Learner
Teaching Writing To Young Learner
Teaching Writing To Young Learner
Learner
are:
Age 3-6 years old: very young learner
Age 7-9 years old: younger learner
Age 10-12 years old: older learner
basics of writing
They can start with tracing and copying
Activity involves word level writing
Finger writing
The course books contain written exercises at
sentence level (gap fill, matching words or sentence
with pictures)
Teachers use guided writing (cards, invitation,
letters, or posters)
Dictogloss
The steps are:
1. Prepare pupils with a range of pre listening activities to listen to a
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story to introduce the topic and key words. Give the pupils a list of
the key words.
Read the story once again, not too fast. Pupils listen to the text a
second time and give tick to the words from the word list.
Afterwards pupils complete gap filling activities.
Pupils re-tell the story orally in pairs, using the completed gapfilling text and pictures.
Pupils now retell the story in writing working in pairs or
individually, trying to reconstruct the text together or recreate the
main meaning with grammatical accuracy and well organized idea.
Display finished version and discuss the story produced.
A variation is that pupils try to create a different ending.
Teaching handwriting
Teachers can follow a two-stage approach:
a. Recognition
Teaching Punctuation
SS at elementary level can study a collection of words
Copying
Disguised word copying
Copying from the board
Making notes
Whisper writing
References
Brewster, J., Ellis, G., & Girard, D. (2002). The