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Reasons for teaching writing.
. In everyday life the need for longer, formal written -work seems to have lessened over the years, and this is reflected in many classrooms -where writing activities are perhaps less often found than those for the three other skills. Despite this, there may still be a number of good reasons why it is useful to include work on writing. Reinforcement: some students acquire languages in a purely oral/aural way, but most of us benefit greatly from seeing the language written down.The visual demonstration of language construction is invaluable for both our understanding of how it all fits together and as an aid to committing the new language to memory. Students often find it useful to write sentences using new language shortly after they have studied it.
Language development: We can't be sure, but it seems that the actual process of writing helps us to learn as we go along. The mental activity we have to go through in order to construct proper written texts is all part of the ongoing learning experience.
Language style: Some students are fantastically quick at picking up language just by looking and listening. For the rest of us, it may take a little longer.For many learners, the time to think things through, to produce language in a slower way, is invaluable. Writing is appropriate for such learners. It can also be a quiet reflective activity instead of the rush and bother of interpersonal face-to-face communication. Many students have a very unproductive personal writing process: when they get a writing assignment, they wait until the last minute, and then crank something out as fast as possible. In their haste, they usually make many mistakes, and the quality of their work suffers.
Teaching Writing.
Teaching Writing is an ongoing process, which Time4Learning facilitates in a number of ways. Most people agree that writing skills are increasingly important and often not adequately taught. When writing is taught in schools, writing instruction often takes a backseat to phonics, handwriting skills, and reading comprehension. Many homeschool parents find that teaching writing may be more challenging than other subjects where there is an answer key. Children can challenge their parent’s feedback. Effective writing is a vital life-skill that is important in almost every subject in school as well in the work world. Additionally, standardized tests increasingly contain a writing component – in some cases this includes a requirement to write an essay on a timed test! At first, many parents think that “learning to write” is primarily a question of grammar. They first think of teaching proper sentence construction, appropriate use of tenses, and punctuation. It is true that grammar is an important component of teaching writing. The TimeLearning system includes a superb set of lessons for teaching punctuation, vocabulary, word choice, spelling, paragraph structure and other components of “correct writing”.But after a little thought, we find that while grammar is an important part of writing, effective writing requires much more. When a writing process is used to teach writing, students begin to understand writing as a form of communication.
Furthermore, writing helps students recognize that they have opinions, ideas, and thoughts that are worth sharing with the world, and writing is an effective way of getting them out there! There are many types of writing such as descriptive writing, persuasive writing, informative writing, narrative writing, and creative or fiction writing. Many students are familiar with the basic writing assignments such as book reports, social studies reports, short stories, and essays on topics such as: “What I did on my summer vacation”. But these writing assignments should be thought of as applications of basic writing modes.