Teaching Writing to Beginners: Introduction

Teaching Writing to Beginners: Introduction

This series of videos looks at effective ways of teaching writing to children who are beginners, especially children who are using a phonics-based approach.

There are many approaches to teaching children that don’t put a lot of emphasis on writing usually either because it is the most difficult of the four skills or because schools believe the focus should be on listening and speaking. With some exceptions, such as when the children are too young, I think this is a serious mistake. With many children, writing is the key to deeper learning, and deepens their ability to communicate effectively.

Here are a few reasons why writing is important:

🔹 Writing deepens internalization.

🔹 Writing is visible to the teacher, the child and the child's parents.

🔹 Writing can be done away from class.

🔹 Writing is a communicative skill.

🔹 Children have different preferences, and some children are happiest when writing quietly in a note book.

David Paul

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00:00 Start
00:23 The importance of writing
01:52 Writing deepens internalization
02:43 Writing is visible
03:57 Writing can be done away from class
04:28 Writing is a communicative skill
05:09 Children have different preferences
05:44 Is writing achievable?
07:07 Thinking and writing

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