READING RESOURCES; TEACHING AND LEARNING WRITING

Today, the teacher started the classroom showing us reading resources. She has taught activities like this:

-Number activity

- Class objects activity

- Extraterrestrial activity (you have to write the dialogue)

- Yo-yo activity (listening and reading)

There are cognitive activities that have the difficulty to know which group to put it.

Then, teacher has explained teaching and learning writing.

The teacher should give feedback to improve their writing. She/he has to scaffold  the writing task.

• Starting point --> conected text for a purpose and a reader.

• Differents ideas about writing:

      -Graubert (1997) --> Consolidates and reinforces laguange.

      - Raimes (1983) --> Writing reinforces the grammatical structures.

      - Porte (1996) --> As writing involves finding the right way of expressing something.

Teaching of writing must aim at building the student's communicative potential to produce whole text:

Writing: struggle to convert                           Writing: linguistic                               Writing has a language

thoughts and ideas into language.                  experience --> need to take               potential: discover of how

                                                                    risks and experimental with                language works.

                                                                    the language.

Writing process 3 important question must be considered:

• The content: what you are writing.
• The addressee or reader: who you are writing to or for.
• The purpose: why you are writing.