https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f All material in this padlet is excerpted from "Learning Teaching" by Jim Scrivener. en-us 2017-06-13 02:49:34 UTC 2025-11-01 19:50:43 UTC hello@padlet.com jentran https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176185607 - Choose a topic
- Choose a genre
- Get ideas
- Discuss ideas with others to get new perspective
- select between ideas
- sequence ideas
- make notes, diagram, etc to help organize ideas
- fina grammar and lexis suitabe for the text
- do practice exercises on language items that will be useful
- study sample and model texts similar to what they want to write
- plan the organization of their text
- draft a rough text
- get feedback on language use
- co-write sections of text in groups
- make alterations and rewrites
- write a final version
- find appropriate readers]]> 2017-06-13 02:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176185607 jentran https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176186233 1. Introduce the topic
Get students interested, maybe by reading a text, showing pictures, discussing some key issues, etc.

2. Introduce and summarise the main writing task
Make sure students are clear what they have to do. They need to know the genre (magazine article? letter? formal report? etc), who they are writing to, and why. Avoid bland, 'genre-free text for particular audience' writing tasks

3. Brainstorm ideas
Whole class: use the board to collect as many ideas as possible. Small groups: speak and take notes.

4. Fast-write
A very good way to overcome blank page terror and get ideas flowing is to 'fast-write'

5. Select and reject ideas
What's wirth leaving out?

6. Sort and order ideas
Start to plan structure of text by arranging ideas

7. Decide on specific requirements: style, information, layout
How is the tst to be laid out, paragraphed, organized? Ar there any special rules. Are there thigns that must be included or  stated in a certain way?

8. Focus on useful models
Help students to study one or more samples of written texts similar to the one they are writing. Focus on content, message, organization, grammar, phrases, etc.

9. Plan the text
Use notes, sketches, or cut-up cards to start organizing a possible shape for text.

10. Get feedback 
At various points, you, other individual students or groups can read and make helpful comments and suggestions about a text. This help may be on the content and message, the oragnization, the language, etc.

11. Prepare draft
Students often benefit from preparing a draft version before the final one. This gives them the chance to get reader reactions and corrections.

12. Edit
Students carefully go through their own text, checking if it says what they want it to, if it reads clearly and smoothly, if its language is correct

13. Prepare final text
Based on feedback, students write a finished text

14. Readers
Rather than simply mark a text, it's great when student can respond to it in some more realistic way. ]]> 2017-06-13 03:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176186233 jentran https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176188955 1. Write real letters/e-mails
Think of real people to whom students can wrtie. Send them. Get replies, Write back

2. Publish your own newsletter, magazine, handout, etc.
Class magazine, school magazine, fan newsletter, local news, campaigning on environmental or political issues, etc.

3. Advertise (ideas, school events, products, etc.)
Advertise around the school, town; send in your ads to local papers, etc.

4. Send comments, replies to discussions, reviews, etc. to web sites
There are now a wide number of discussions, message boards and newsgroups specifically for students or for special-interest groups. Many shops and consumer sites invite reader reviews of books, products, events, etc.

5. Write questionnairs and then use them out in the street
These can be written in English or in the learners' own language. Write up the results. Publish them!

6. Long-term projects 
These are a good way of integrating writing with other work. The aim could be a file or book at the end.

7. Apply for things, fill in form register for things, etc.
This can be done directly on the Internet or printed papers.

]]> 2017-06-13 03:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176188955 jentran https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176208118 Resource: information about a holiday location (pictures, description, list of attraction, etc.)
Task: Write two paragraph advertisement for the place to encourage more visitors to come.

Resource: Full data and illustration of three different up-to-date household produces or gardgets. Possible extra information about consumer trend, the economy.
Task: You are the senior manager and will attend a meeting to decide on one new product to produce. Write a breif report on each product then outline your recommendations as to which one to choose, with reasons.

Resource: A map of a town. Short descriptions of ghosts that are said to haunt specific buildings and locations.
Task: You are a local tour guide who has decided to start a 'Ghost walk' for tourists round town. Plan a route for the walk.. Write a short article for the local paper to publicize it.

Resource: Seven em-mails to your company pointing out problems with the delivery service.
Task: you are the head of the delivery department department.  Write an email to the director summarizing the problems and making recommendations.

Resource: A number of articles from different sources on the same new items; a letter from your friend asking if your have heard about the item and what you think about it.
Task: Write a letter to your friend

Resource: History articles, encyclopaedias. websites, etc.
Task: Prepare a wall poster to interest and inform your friends about a historical topic.]]> 2017-06-13 08:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176208118 jentran https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176216248 - Use a green or blue pen
- Discuss the marking criteria with students. Agree on a mark or a grade
- Write the correct answers in the margin
- Use correction codes in the margin
- Underline all errors of one type
- Write a letter in reply
- Write nothing. Discuss the work with the individual students
- Only write a comment about the meaning and message of the piece
- Create a composite essay using good bits and problematic bits from a number of students' work. Photocopy it and hand out for students to discuss and correct. together or in groups or individually, perharps for homework
- Use errors from a number of different students' writing to devise an exercise, quiz, game, etc. Or get students to create the exercise themselves based on their own mistakes (more challenging than simply copying out correct answers)
- Give a dictation based on sentences]]> 2017-06-13 09:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jentran/7fgsndbp0z9f/wish/176216248