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Chapter 11: Write or Wrong? Teaching Writing Lessons
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Subject: ............................................................................................................. Greeting:
Paragraph 1:
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 4:
Closing Salutation: Name:
How are things?
Topic sentence Details and examples
The holiday
Topic sentence Details and examples
Plans to meet
Topic sentence Details and examples
Closing comments
I look forward to ....................
Figure 11-2:
Structuring an informal email.
the stages
After preparing the students’ minds for the task, you need to tell them what it is, whether they will be working alone or collaborating with someone else, and how long they have to complete it.
Student follow three stages when writing: The first is drafting or planning, the second is actually writing and the third is reviewing. I cover each in the fol- lowing sections.
Thinking through the drafting stage
For the first stage, drafting, students have already considered how to use a template to good effect (see ‘Building structure’ a bit earlier in the chapter), but still need time to gather their ideas. At this stage the student should also make sure that each aspect of the task will be covered in the text.
Setting the writing task and explaining