The Writing Tutor

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The Writing Tutor

• Develop knowledge
• Develop motor skills
• Prewriting activities
• Simple sentences
• Proofreading
• Motivational writing

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Motivational writing

• How do we encourage writing?
• Some techniques
• Journals (Write-teach approach)
• Start with pictures (Language Experience
  Approach)
• Manipulatives (Sentence strips)

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Develop motor skills

• Many physical aspects of writing may interfere
  with the writing process and frustrate students
  productivity.
• Involved
• Some handwriting techniques are
• Arm and finger movements
• Wrist and body positioning and strength
• Fading dotted lines
• Sentence strips
• Talking through the process

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Prewriting activities

• Students are poor in planning skills (Graham
  Harris)
• Check students knowledge of subject
• Talk with students about the paper development
  and genre
• Diagramming the potential paragraph or paper

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Simple sentences

• Sentence structure needs to be developed
  systematically (outcome often matched to memory)
• Inventive Spelling
• Steps to sentence development
• Teacher gives sentence student identifies
  formula
• Teacher gives sentence student states formula
  or nonsentence
• Teacher gives formula and opening student
  finishes the sentence
• Teacher gives formula student gives sentence

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Proofreading

• Poor reading makes it difficult to check ones
  writing.
• Avoid excessive corrections
• Self-check questions
• Did I include my information?
• Are the paragraphs purposeful?
• Are the paragraphs developed adequately?
• Are the paragraphs varied sufficiently?
• Does each sentence match the point of the
  paragraph?
• Is each paragraph needed?

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Summation

• Name two ways to build writing motivation.
• Name one activity to improve handwriting.
• Name one prewriting activity.
• Why should we teach sentence formulas?
• Name one idea for correcting a students work.