Developing Literacy Through Journal Writing & Inspiring Writing
100
Describing a situation or subject in vivid, colorful, concrete language
What is imagery?
100
Students generate ideas for writing by using techniques such as drawing, and listing key thoughts
What is Prewriting?
100
Using a book that contains text with predictable and/or repetitive language patterns.
What is Patterned Books?
100
A technique employed by young children and others just beginning to learn to read, in which they spell words using combinations of the sounds heard in spoken language
What is Invented Spelling?
100
An approach to teaching reading and language arts that uses words and stories from the student's own language and experience.
What is Language Experience Approach?
200
Using informal language when appropriate, maintaining personal contact with readers, expressing one's own personality.
What is Naturalness?
200
Students correct the draft for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and other features of polished writing.
What is Editing?
200
Students view a short film segment and write a script in which they describe a scene.
What is "Writing a Movie"?
200
Using words that share the same rime, or combination of letters to produce the same final sound.
What is Phonogram Method?
200
Develop positive and encouraging responses to student's work.
What is Creating a Positive Classroom Environment?
300
Avoiding monotony by altering sentence length, clause position, sentence type, and other elements of style.
What is Flexible Style?
300
Students also work to achieve a sense of audience, and use precise word choices, vivid supporting details, sentence variety, and literary devices to create interest.
What is Revising?
300
A type of writing, the purpose of which is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject.
What is Expository Writing?
300
Teaching children to remember words from books thorugh picturing the words
What is Visualizing Spelling?
300
Working with children to get them involve in writing projects that are appropriate and exciting for the classroom.
What is Building Authors?
400
Expressing the essence of an idea or situation, avoiding words and details that distract from the main idea or impression to be conveyed.
What is Conciseness?
400
Students organize information into a logical sequence through the use of time-order words and cause/effect transitions.
What is Drafting?
400
Writing narrative stories about themselves and their neighbors
What is Community History Writing?
400
Teaching the children to verify spelling through looking at resources and in the texts.
What is Reflecting?
400
Get students to admire each other by helping them produce an interesting piece of work, later requesting feedback from his/her classmates.
What is Author's Computer Chair?
500
Creating fresh analogies, characters, settings, plots, or words and playing with homonyms, alliteration, and other humorous device.
What is Inventiveness?
500
Students produce, illustrate, and share a variety of compositions, including using appropriate computer technology.
What is Publishing?
500
Using a variety of texts, genres, and story patterns to engage children.
What is "Using other types of Literature"?
500
Teaching children to weave together the information from several strategies
What is Combining Information?
500
Provides motivation for practice in actual communication.