Writing+Skills

=**Today's Topic: Improving Students' Writing Proficiency**= toc

=**Today's Objectives:**=


 * Students will explain best practices in second language writing instruction.
 * Students will use pedagogically sound activities to develop the target language writing skills of second language learners.
 * Students will defend pedagogically sound practices for providing error correction and feedback on students' writing.

=**Today's Guiding Questions:**=

1) What are some of the reasons that second language learners find writing difficult? 2) According to current research, how is second language writing proficiency developed? 3) Why is it important for teachers to focus on content instead of form in writing instruction?


 * Today's Agenda**


 * Writing Practice**
 * Ways to Practice Writing
 * Shaving Cream
 * Sidewalk Chalk
 * Writing on Another Person's Back


 * Writing Fluency**
 * Frases Descriptivas ( Detail, Grammatical Patterns, & Elaboration)
 * Timed Writing


 * Scaffolding Students' Writing** (Materials Rotation Review)


 * Clone Poems
 * Comic Strips
 * Comparison Charts
 * Diamond Poems
 * Facebook Profile Pages
 * Found Poems
 * Graffiti Wall
 * Graphic Organizers
 * Lee y Organiza
 * Opinions & Reasons
 * Plot Organizers
 * Pre-writing/Speaking
 * Read & Respond
 * Real Forms & Applications
 * Sentence Webbing
 * Stories (Animals should not wear clothing because . . ., pairs write sentences under each picture via a gallery walk, then vote for best sentence per picture)
 * Story Choice Web
 * Templates


 * Post-reading Activities That Require Writing**
 * Circle Stories (like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie)
 * Class Valentines
 * Clone Stories (like 7 Blind Mice)
 * Fractured Fairy Tales
 * Guess Who Boyfriend/Girlfriend Description Paragraphs
 * Querido Pedrín (Fairy Tale Characters Write Letters to One Another)
 * Sentence Strips with Comparatives & Superlatives
 * Story Strips (They create the story based on choosing 5-8 sentence strips taken from the story as a pre- or post-reading activity)
 * Stories from a Different Perspective (i.e., 3 Little Pigs from the perspective of the Big Bad Wolf)

Writing in the Target Language Activities