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The document also talks about the writing process. Here is a brief idea of what you can find in the text. Steps in developing writing 1. Acquire knowledge 2. Retrieve knowledge 3. Plan text 4. Construct text 5. Edit text
Acquire knowledge: receive information (e.g., through reading and listening).
Retrieve knowledge: pull together acquired knowledge and express it in language.
Plan text: understand purpose and goal of writing; know planning processes and steps; know various text structures; be able to use or invent organizing tools to develop writing.
Construct text: understand and apply text conventions such as paragraph structure; organize information from broad to specific; and understand your perspective.
Edit text: recognize errors and places for improvements; monitor construction and cohesion and revise; apply writing mechanics (e.g., capitals, punctuation, and spelling).
Suggested writing activities • Model the use of writing frames, templates, or graphic organizers to give students an understanding of narrative structure. • Ask students to take a text and break it down to its skeletal outline; this helps understanding of how writers develop a story. • Present students with two sentences, and ask them to combine the sentences to make one more complex sentence (e.g., “Brownies taste good” with “Mary likes to eat brownies” to create “Mary likes to eat brownies because they taste good”). This activity helps young writers with sentence structure and grammar. • Ask students to insert descriptive words into otherwise plain sentences (e.g., add “black” “big” and “quickly” into the sentence “The spider ran up the wall” to make the sentence “The big, black spider quickly ran up the wall” (Wren, 2002b). Extend this activity or teach at a more advanced level with a discussion of synonyms to substitute for words (e.g., “The enormous black spider rapidly raced up the wall”).
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