Composing Processes for Different Forms of Oral and Written Discourse.
The meaning of DWC
What is Discourse and Writing Cycle?
To express themselves, inform their reader, to persuade their reader, or to create a literary work.
What are the four purposes of writing?
the organization or system of sounds within a language. Once the phonological system has been acquired for basic listening and speaking, children begin to develop phonological awareness—the awareness of words in sentences or syllables in words. Other aspects of phonological awareness include rhyme, alliteration, onset rime (word families), blending, segmenting, and manipulating sounds.
What is phonology?
The goal should be that students learn the curriculum through discussing and writing about it, with each stage in the process leading to more sophisticated understanding.
What is the goal of treating both discourse and writing as a process?
What is technical writing and its purpose?
Vocabulary. The development of vocabulary focuses both on expressive vocabulary and receptive vocabulary. Expressive vocabulary represents the words a student actively uses when talking, writing, or communicating. Receptive vocabulary represents the words that a student understands—based on context and background experiences—but may not necessarily use in his or her own speaking or writing
What is Semantics and its importance in the classroom?
The instructional approach that derives from the understanding that reading is not only a skill but an intellectual practice in which students engage in thinking about a text.
What is using a full range of literacy practices, including: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and thinking?
Writing that is used to educate or explain something to the audience and the main purpose of this writing is to show clear, accurate, organized, and thorough understanding of a certain topic.
What is Informative writing/expository writing?
Grammar. As children develop their oral language skills, they also develop an understanding of grammar—the set of structural rules that govern the combination of words and phrases into sentences—and how sentences are combined into paragraphs.
What is syntax and its importance in the classroom?
narrative storytelling follows a very specific format—beginning, middle, and end. These parts describe the main characters, the setting in which they live, the conflict, and the resolution. An understanding of story structure is essential in order to read, understand, and write narrative. In contrast, consider the structure of expository, or informational, text. These forms of writing also follow certain structures such as: persuasive, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and procedural
What are some examples of using oral and written communication topics in the classroom?
What is Persuasive writing?
The understanding of the social use of language. Understanding a variety of situations prepares students for more successful comprehension at later stages, including both listening and reading comprehension.
What is pragmatics and what is its importance in the classroom?
The first is that by discussing and writing about the curriculum, students are thinking about the content with a depth and clarity that is difficult to achieve otherwise. The second is that learning to write—along with learning to read, speak, and listen—pays dividends throughout life.
What are the two main reasons why discourse and writing should be taught in all subject areas?
A form of creative writing that is used to educate or explain something to the audience, and the purpose is to entertain more than to inform.
What is narrative writing/literary work and its purpose?
Focused on the smallest units of meaning within a word and the rules about how those words are formed. Can also include the study of structural analysis—how words are joined together and build vocabulary by analyzing the morphological structure of the word (prefix, root and suffix)—which helps build upon the child’s foundation in vocabulary.
What is morphology and its importance in the classroom?