The preface led me to think about my teaching experience for writing. Did I ever teach how to write according to audience and purpose instead of throwing a topic for daily journal or writing assignment? The author, Lori Jamison Rog reminds me again the basic things to do for teaching reading and writing. Teacher needs to know different writing process at different stages of writing development and scaffold the students to higher level of development. As the reading does, the writing does not always follow the same sequence, time frame or process for every piece of writing. I think this is what teacher need to aware before teaching writing. The writing conference are useful to create a skillful writers. Personally, I like the concept of butterfly
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I often use the KWL chart for reading and encourage then to write any story related to the reading. Some were very struggle and take a long time to create just one sentence meanwhile some were very creative and engaged the writing. If I used this prewriting techniques for organizing children’s idea in a logical order, the consequence of writing would be a lot different. I found some a couple of website providing many graphic organizes which I would like to adopt for teaching writing. Because of the character of writing would be very different depend on the purpose, we need to teach students to consider the style, organization and mechanics according to the audience and provide them various opportunities to write for different purpose. Many time I noticed that the developing writers use the linking words which means conjunctions a lot without the idea of coherent organization of sentences something like a sentence of a child; “I went to school and played with Jimmy and I cannot finish my assignment.” They love to composite writing but still need a lot of teacher support for revising. I think teacher have to encourage them to practice writing constantly, meanwhile supporting them to maintain six traits which are good writers do for effective writing so that they become a fluent writer day after day. As Lori Jamison Rog have found out, it is ineffective to teach many things to students. When we focus on …show more content…
As we all have experience, using an adapted rubric make the assessment valid and reliable. Teacher receives a feedback from the result by the rubric, then it would handle the next step of teacher’s explicit writing instruction for improving the weakness area be reflected on next plan and. When I received a writing assessment rubric from the first grade teacher of my daughter, it was quiet easy to figure out the weakness part of my daughter’s writing. Later then, I ever had a chance to make a rubric for a writing assignment which I create to kindergarten before. I adapted 6 traits standard rubric for 2 traits rubric and add some pictures for understanding of kindergarten students who was my test takers because if they do not understand the traits of evaluation, it would be unfair assessing them with the
I often use the KWL chart for reading and encourage then to write any story related to the reading. Some were very struggle and take a long time to create just one sentence meanwhile some were very creative and engaged the writing. If I used this prewriting techniques for organizing children’s idea in a logical order, the consequence of writing would be a lot different. I found some a couple of website providing many graphic organizes which I would like to adopt for teaching writing. Because of the character of writing would be very different depend on the purpose, we need to teach students to consider the style, organization and mechanics according to the audience and provide them various opportunities to write for different purpose. Many time I noticed that the developing writers use the linking words which means conjunctions a lot without the idea of coherent organization of sentences something like a sentence of a child; “I went to school and played with Jimmy and I cannot finish my assignment.” They love to composite writing but still need a lot of teacher support for revising. I think teacher have to encourage them to practice writing constantly, meanwhile supporting them to maintain six traits which are good writers do for effective writing so that they become a fluent writer day after day. As Lori Jamison Rog have found out, it is ineffective to teach many things to students. When we focus on …show more content…
As we all have experience, using an adapted rubric make the assessment valid and reliable. Teacher receives a feedback from the result by the rubric, then it would handle the next step of teacher’s explicit writing instruction for improving the weakness area be reflected on next plan and. When I received a writing assessment rubric from the first grade teacher of my daughter, it was quiet easy to figure out the weakness part of my daughter’s writing. Later then, I ever had a chance to make a rubric for a writing assignment which I create to kindergarten before. I adapted 6 traits standard rubric for 2 traits rubric and add some pictures for understanding of kindergarten students who was my test takers because if they do not understand the traits of evaluation, it would be unfair assessing them with the