Polish your writing

PAD ALDO RODRIGUEZ

 Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?

• Writing is a productive skill

• Writing is a product
• Writing refers to words and sentences.
• All the skills need a process
• When teaching writing, you need to teach strategies
• When teaching writing, you need to work on other skills.
• There are several pre writing activities to foster students’
creativity
• Writing is assessed as the other skills.
• Rubrics are essential in assessing writing.
• When assessing writing you focus on the formal aspects of
the piece of writing.
• The message transmitted in the piece of writing is the only
thing you should consider
Is the assignment clear?
Is it appropriate for the level?
Are the students familiar with these types of writing?
What is the aim in each of the cases?
What would you include in order to enhance the writing’s
layout?
What do you expect your students to write?
Which should the length of each writing be?
What type of layout should have been taught beforehand?
•How do teachers offer students an opportunity to write in an authentic
context?

•How do teachers evaluate student compositions in a fair an objective

way?

•How does “timed impromptu” writing affect the student writer?

You can use this vocabulary:
Box-office hit
Star-studded film
Blockbuster

Directed by/produced by
The leading actor/actress
The plot…
In my opinion…
•Putting ideas together
•Creating paragraphs: the importance of topic sentences,
supporting sentences and conclusive sentence.
•Find a good wrap up.

•Revise spelling, grammar, layout and structure. The

Carroussel technique
•Give time to the students to work. Allot 45 minutes for a
complete writing activity
•What is it that you, the reader, are evaluating?

•Are you evaluating handwriting and legibility?

•Are you looking for correct spelling?
•Are you looking for writing sentences that are
grammatically correct?
•Is paragraph construction important or logical
development of an idea?
•Is it form-focused writing, grammar writing or
guided writing?
 PRIMARY TRAIT SCORING
HOLISTIC METHOD
-emphasizes the task at hand and
Each point on an holistic
assigns a score based on the
score is given a set of
effectiveness of the text’s achieveness
descriptors and the reader
that one goal. For example, if the task
evaluator matches an
was to communicate a message, then
overall impression with the
the scoring would rise or fall with the
descriptors to arrive at the
accomplishment of that function.
score.-
Advantages: fast evaluation,
high inter-rater reliability, ANALYTIC SCORING
scores represent standards Many elements of writing are scored,
set by teachers and enabling students to work on strengths
students. and weaknesses.
Advantage: offers more washback to the
student writer than the previous methods
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