TYL Week 4: Teaching Writing

1. TYL Week 4:Teaching Writing

2. Agenda • Very Young Learners: • Writing Videos • Short writing activities • Older Young Learners: • Running Dictation • Description Guessing Game • Accordion Story • Stories with Fun Prompts

3. How can you teach Very Young Learners (VYLs) to write? • Letters • Phonics: Put letters together into words • Memorizing words (sight words and other common words) • Sentence frames

4. Writing instruction: Elementary ESL in America

5. Annenberg Videos(Stretchy Activities)

6. Take notes as you watch.

7. Think, Pair, Share • Which activities could you see yourself using in the future? • Why would you want to use them? What’s their value?

8. “Stretchy” Activities • Activities that you can recycle every day or week with different EFL themes • Shared Reading • Shared Writing • Writer’s Workshop / Journal Writing

9. Poster session!

10. Poster Session • Ideas for Very Young Learners: • Write Around the Room • Making Lists • Labeling • Sticker Stories

11. Older young learners

12. Running Dictation A “stretchy” activity

13. Directions • 1) Partner A = Runner • 2) Partner B = Writer • 3) Runner = Read and tell writer • 4) Writer = Write it! • 5) Finished? Guess the answers together and write them!

14. Follow Up • Have groups write the riddles on the board. • Check for grammar and spelling • Take away the texts and have students re-create the riddles from memory

15. Other Versions • The students don’t read the riddles—you whisper them to them (listening, speaking, writing)

16. Let’s Talk! • How can we adjust this activity . . . • For different skills and subjects? (Grammar, pronunciation, etc.) • For different ages? • For different English levels? • Use for grammar or pronunciation • Minimal Pairs: Cheap chips made him really ill.

17. Accordion Add on Story

18. Directions • Get in groups of 8 people. • You’ll each write one part of a story on each flap of an accordion. • You can’t look at what the others wrote. • In the end, we’ll read your stories!

19. What to write

20. Guess the picture a “stretchy” activity

21. Directions • Choose a picture. • Shh! It’s a secret! • Write a 2 sentence description of the picture. • Don’t be too obvious. • Read your description to a partner. • Your partner will guess which picture you’re describing.

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23. Let’s Talk! • How can we adjust this activity . . . • For different skills, subjects, and topics? • For different ages? • For different English levels?

24. Differentiate • For lower students • Sentence frames (She is wearing ____, She has ____, She is _____) • Pre-teach the necessary vocabulary; label the pictures • Write fewer sentences • For higher students • Give advanced sentence frames (compound sentences) • Pre-teach advanced vocabulary (floral, polka dots) • Write more sentences

25. Story prompts

26. Write a story using prompts

27. Write a story using pictures as a prompt

28. What’s wrong with the photograph—describe it. Write a story—how did this happen? What will happen next?

29. Homework • Assignment Page = Back of Handout • Mid-Term