Teaching Writing Informal Letters

Writing is one of the most important skills that I have learned throughout my years in school. I have learned that no matter how much I love or hate it, writing is a necessity; I might as well try to be good at it. Writing has been in my life for many years. There are many types of writing, educational writing and personal writing are two that I will mention in this essay. I have learned how to allow writing to help me in my daily life. When I began writing I hated it, however, I have learned the many uses of it, and it has become a huge part of my life.

Writing is often considered mundane and banal to some students. In fact, people have even written things down since the beginning of time. I dreaded writing until I had Mrs. Dunlap for 4th block English during my 8th grade year at Mount Juliet Middle. This is the story about how she made me the writer I am today with what I like to call ‘Write’speration.

In today’s workforce, jobs are heavily based upon the skills that one has and how well one can perform them in their field of study. A major component skill that lacks in many young people today is writing. Writing plays is an important role in life, one needs it to communicate with other people. If young people are not taught this in their years of schooling and do not learn to master it, consequently they will come out on the bottom with poor writing skills. Which in

A learner’s ability to communicate effectively through writing to his/her target audiences is a major prerequisite for academic success. It is also a major pillar of success in one’s career across all areas of practice. Even though, writing clearly is critical to one’s academic and career success, I have not always loved writing. In fact, for a long time I despised writing. At one point, I had a feeling that my writings skills were bound to remain stagnated throughout my life. However, time has proven that I was wrong. My attitude and outlook towards virtually all genres of writing has changed positively. The various helpful methods I have been exposed to by my English teachers through different grades have helped me

Reading and writing are two very important skills. These skills allow students to be successful, life long learners. Along with many other skills, one place students learn how to read and write is school. As an educator it is my job to ensure that students learn these essential skills, so that they can be successful, life long learners. It is important to know that writing-to-learn is different from learning-to- write. Writing-to-learn is different as the final product is not a piece that has undergone several edits (Knipper & Duggan, 2006). Writing-to-learn is the short informal pieces of writing that can be used in a lesson for students to reflect on subject matter and explore their own learning (Colorado State University, 2015). Where

Throughout this semester, I have personally developed and improved as a writer, through the weekly writing tasks set for the writers Journal. This procedure of composing Journal entries and assessment tasks involves critical reflection on the information provided and on myself developing those skills. During my school years, books were always as a part of my life, reading gave me joy, swept me towards my memories and took me along Journies never been before. However, I never thought of myself as a writer, composing short stories, writings and texts for others to read. I have realised that my goal is to become an influential educator to children who are yet to discover their potentials, goals and interests. Loan and Muir (2017) say “as teachers,

Academic writing is an integral part of practically all college courses in the UK and the US and is crucial in determining how successful a student’s performance will be during his studies. Yet many students are poor writers and feel stressed and overwhelmed when facing daunting writing challenges. They often find it hard to cope with extremely tight deadlines for numerous college essays, term papers, literature reviews, business plans, research proposals, etc. that they are usually assigned to write in different classes simultaneously.

An article published by the International Literacy Association, “Implementing the Writing Process” gives a strategy guide for K-5 graders explains the writing process and offers practical methods that can be applied to students to help them become proficient writers. This article shows some similarity to the Bromley chapters. The article shows from research that students who learn the writing process score better on state tests compared to those who receive instructions in the skills assessed on the test. These students become writers who can apply their skill to all subjects. The writing process takes students’attitude, motivation, and engagement into account, as it allows them to plan their writing and come up with a final publishable draft they can be proud of. The writing process involves teaching students to write in a variety of genres that apply to different

Every student should know about the writing process, since elementary school, we have used the writing process. Now I’m a senior and taking a college writing course still struggle with some aspects of the writing process. I struggle with all 5 writing process in some way or another. Some a barley struggle and some I really struggle with and need to improve to improve my writing. Although some high school senior use their lack of experience with the writing process to explain not challenging themselves I use this same theory but to justify enrolling a senior writing class.

Students need to be able to write to a specific audience, so in this step students should write about a topic and they should write as their group is their audience. Then when they are done with their writing, they will share their writings with their group. Sharing their writings to their groups helps them to rely information to readers. Then as an assessment, teachers should be able to notice a difference in the students writing compared to when they first started the guided writing. As the students go through this process, it is to help them realize new strategies to help their writing, as well as becoming a better writer. The students themselves should also notice how their writing has improved and the different strategies for what they learn during this process.

Writing is use in almost every aspect in life and is an important skill to have. This single skill has the capability to make an individual extremely successful within their career field. Many college students believe that writing isn't important because there isn't a lot of writing within their selected job field but fail to realize that writing is used in every job field but the writing varies dependent on the field of study. A person might have to write specifications for a building being designed/built, the diagnosis of a fixed car, a police report being file, a doctor writing a chart or just simply communicating through an email. Although each of these fields of study have different types and styles of writing,

Writing can be a very hard topic to teach. It can also be a very hard subject for a student to grasp on too. The amount of instruction on writing and the amount of writing students have done in middle school is very low. Unfortunately, the time dedicated for writing in middle school has been very minimal lately in classrooms. However, Common Core State Standards says writing needs to be done. Research has shown that the seventh graders at Solon Middle school have completed a unit on writing and they had a higher amount of engagement. This students were practicing the CCSS structure and the loved it.

Teachers need to create a daily purpose for their writing. “Teachers need to make ELLs aware of the purpose and form that different types of writing, and ultimately communication, can take in their respective disciple” (DelliCaripini, 2012).Therefore, the more times the students are exposed to the different variety types of writing the more comfortable they will be in writing in their content-area classrooms. “English teachers are in a good position to implement the types of supports that can move ELLs toward success in academic writing by providing exposure to and practice with different genres of academic writing, finding ways to provide time for ELLs to engage in the task, building academic vocabulary, and providing effective feedback that ELLs can use to improve on what they are doing” (DelliCarpini,

Writing enhances my ability to explain important information to readers. By writing, I can explain the meaning of terms as well as put down different data in a good and well-organized way. Moreover, writing is very helpful in getting feedback. In situations where getting feedback face to face from others, writing provides the best way to get it from them.

Shared writing is an authentic learning process that helps students to learn necessary skills of writing process. In the instructional process of shared writing, teachers compose text together with the students (Ukrainetz, Cooney, Dyer, Kysar & Harris, 2000, p.334). I use the approach of writing aloud process with my students to describe and model out the different stages of the writing process. In this process, I combine the shared writing strategy by participating in writing, along with my students and provide guidance and support so that they feel confident to contribute their ideas and thoughts. Additionally, I guide my students to focus on the specific elements of writing to produce the final writing piece.