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Writing words
Joining letters
When students have learnt a new letter, they can -1
practice joining it to other letters they knew
already . Obviously, they should only practice
combinations ,which really exist in words ,and as
soon as they know enough letters they should
.practice writing words and sentences
: Which combinations would be worth practicing
ta ti et ot yt th tg nt dt
Letters joining can be thought in the same way -2
as individual letters . Its very important to show
clearly how we make joins from the end of one
.letter to the beginning of the next
Copying words
: Disadvantage
Dictation
:Revised Items / New Teaching items
.Teacher writes the words on the board .1
.Students read the words aloud.2
T. erases some words to be dictated / Teacher.3
erases part of the word like a vowel, a diphthong,
.consonant, combination
.Ss. write the words.4
.T. rewrite the words again on the board .5
.Ss. Look at the words and correct themselves.6
:Classification Exercise
.Ss. Read the words silently.1
.Ss. read the sets.2
Ss. Fill in the words within a limited period of .3
.time
.T. moves around offering help.4
.Checking the answers along with the students .5
.Writing the correct answers on the board .6
.Giving appropriate and immediate feedback .7
Writing Stages
Controlled writing .1
: Comment on this activity
: Copy the following sentences
". Ahmed goes to school by bus"
: Comments
The activity is completely mechanical. Students -1
can copy the sentence even if they don’t know what
it means . Their attention is not focused on the
.meaning of the sentence at all
Because it is so mechanical , it is very -2
uninteresting . The students are not required to
.think or use their imagination in any way
How to make the activity more meaningful and
?more interesting while keeping it fairly controlled
Leave out parts of the sentence for students to-1
write themselves ,e.g," Ahmed ____________ by bus ."
or "Ahmed goes to school _________ ." Either let
student for themselves what to write in the gap , or
say the whole sentence and ask them to write what
. they heard
Say the sentence ,but write only the outline on -2
the board. e.g "Ahmed – school – bus " student
. write the whole sentence
.Draw a picture to replace part of the sentence -3
:Guided writings .2
What problems might be involved in giving a
?completely free writing task
Many students would probably find it quite -
difficult, ands make many mistakes. If so, they
would find the task frustrating and probably not
.learn very much from it
Students would probably approach the task-
indifferent ways, and produce a wide variety of
different paragraphs. So the only way to correct
their work would be individually, book by book; this
.would be very time-consuming for the teacher
:Writing process .2
Providing the needed materials, the needed
support for students, creating a quiet atmosphere
.in which students will have the chance to think
:Post-writing process .3
Checking the product, correcting it, displaying it in
classroom by reading it or fixing it on a wall or the
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