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Module 4: Writing with Fluency and Control Teacher’s Guide.
Objective: Establishing automatic control
Lesson plan:
Automatic control for writing indicates that a child no longer needs to ‘think’ about the action of writing. Now their focus and attention can be directed towards the composition of what they are writing. Handwriting speed is a good indictor of automaticity, as is legibility. Activities available on the IWB programme, IWB410/411.
1. Provide the children with a blank or lined piece of paper. Position the paper in landscape.
2. Dictate a sentence to the children and ask them to write it down on their paper.
3. Now ask the children to close their eyes and write the sentence again.
4. Ask the children to open their eyes let them compare the two writing samples. 5. Ask them to look at the writing samples and identify the differences in terms
of legibility, letter formation, size, position and height of the letters. Is there consistency between the two samples? What can they work on to help improve the areas they have identified?
6. Ask the children to writing the sentence again with their eyes closed and paying more attention to the areas they have identified as needing to improve.
More to Learn:
To increase the complexity of the task you can ask children to write sentences they have created themselves.
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