Writing

Fecha de publicación: 06-jun-2011 10:40:08

Teaching the four skills in the Primary EFL classroom

Some kinds of writing:

- Copying (plan for the day, date, labels...)

- Practising spelling (jumbled letters, word or text edition, gap-filling...)

- Transcription (dictation, writing songs learned by heart...)

- Producing own texts -often sentences- with the help of models (samples of work, sentence patterns...) or scaffolding techniques such as substitution tables.

- Producing own texts from scratch (picture captions, short stories, descriptions...)

- Participating in written exchanges via email, blogs...

Some online activities:

Petites històries

LearnEnglish Kids: Read & Write

Fake Captain Kirk and Talk to Alice

Descriptions

Short Online Dictations

Story Starters

Some ideas for offline activities.

- "Thought of the day"

- Dictation

- Substitution tables to scaffold written expression

Some samples of students' writing:

- Room description

- Small dialogues