Here is a short overview of how you can incorporate process writing into your students' learning routine:
Aim: Improve writing skills from beginning levels of English
Activity: Process writing - journals
Level: Beginning to advanced
Materials Needed: Notebook for each student
Outline:
Encourage learners to write in their journal at least a few times a week. Explain the idea of process writing, and how mistakes aren't important at this stage. Students should write on the front side of each page only. Teachers will provide notes on the writing on the back. Remember to focus only on material covered in class when correctly student work.
Start this activity by modeling the first journal entry as a class.
Ask students to come up with various Themes that could be covered in a journal (hobbies, work-related themes, observations of family and friends, etc.). Write these themes on the board.
Ask each student to choose a theme and write a short journal entry based on this theme. If students do not know a particular vocabulary item, they should be encouraged to describe this item (for example: the thing which turns on the TV), or draw the item.
Collect the journals the first time in class and do a quick, superficial correction of each student's journal. Ask students to rewrite their work based on your comments.
After this first session, collect students' workbooks once a week and correct only one piece of their writing. Ask students to rewrite this piece.
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