6.+Teaching+Writing

**Teaching Writing**

The initial stages for children learning to write can be quite difficult as writing incorporates a range of different skills that a child needs to have some understanding of in order to be able to write. It would take too much time for a teacher to teach each individual child how to read, therefore a teacher can use a number of different teaching strategies which can teach either small groups or the entire class how to develop their writing. The major teaching strategies for promoting writing are: Modelled Writing – Teacher demonstrates to the class how to write and children actively witness how text is constructed. Shared Writing – The class or a small group of students share their thoughts and ideas and the teacher instructs them as to how these ideas are put together and then how they are written. Guided Writing – In this technique a small group or individually gets to use the pen themselves with the teacher over seeing how their writing is coming along. A common writing activity for children in the early years of literacy is writing about what they did on the weekend and incorporating illustrations as most kids love to draw and it adds a creative and fun element to writing.

An example of Guided writing

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