Specific Teaching Methods in Language Arts

Writing pedagogy is as varied as any other kind of instruction although there are stand-bys that seem to guide effective writing instruction Many of those common elements have been listed in the plan below for teaching expository paragraphing . The writing key writing strategies I world use to teach expository writing are brainstorming (advance organizers , drafting , modeling , and peer review . These are writing techniques that would be beneficial to all writing

First off , a teacher would want to make sure that students understand the content and the structure of expository writing . In to

teach expository paragraphs , I would first have a question on the board when students come in - What does expository mean ? They would use the cooperative technique of Think-Pair-Share , and we would develop a working definition . This would take less then five minutes . Then , I would present the various components of exposition , like comparison /contrast , cause /effect , steps in a process , etc to the whole group . I would inform that class that descriptive is what we will focus on and brainstorm with them about about what makes good to the whole group (Informing learners of objective

To stimulate some good descriptive writing , thought provoking pictures will be placed at various points around the room (gaining attention Students will be instructed to choose a picture and free write about that picture using what they know about good . All students who wrote on the same photo will form a group , which would be the beginning of small group instruction . They will read what they have written to each other , commenting on examples of good in the works of others . I would allow 15 minutes for this . These same groups will brainstorm about possible thesis statements for their paragraphs using previous knowledge of thesis statements (stimulating recall of prerequisite knowledge . They will rely on this prior knowledge to come up with a thesis statement . I would allow another ten minutes for this Groups would share their possible thesis statements and we would critique them as a class

They would receive a handout with definitions and examples of basic elements of , like effective vocabulary and figurative language . At this point , we would look at both a professional model and a student model of a good descriptive paragraph as a whole group and have a class discussion about what makes these good and how we would incorporate these methods into our own writing (presenting stimulus material . A rubric will also be provided and explained . This rubric would highlight voice , sentence structure , and various elements of like use of figurative language , effective verbs connotation , etc . Modeling is an essential part of the writing process and one that many teachers miss . Rubrics simply make the end results much more tangible for students rather then just the subjective grade that instructors sometimes give

Students would then draft or revise what they have already written on a computer , including a thesis . They would then email their paragraphs to a partner in...