Enhancing Writing Skills in Teaching: Techniques and Activities for Educators

1. Questions for Discussion Do you enjoy teaching writing? Why? Why not? What type of writing activities do you do with your students?

2. Controlled writing Guided writing Free writing

3. Examples of controlled writing tasks • Jigsaw sentences • Copying with corrections • Find and copy • Dictation • Sentence combining • Transformation • Gap-fill

4. Examples of guided writing tasks • Picture description • Picture stories • Summary • Half dialogues • Story completion • Substitution boxes • Questions and answers

5. Pre-writing Activities • Using a drill • Using a listening text • Using a reading text • Using a survey • Using picture dictation

6. While-writing Activities • Write it up • Transformation • Substitution tables • Substitution boxes • Gap-fill • Questions and answers • Ordering • Brainstorming

7. Post-writing Activities • Correction • Sharing and comparing • Exhibition