Writing Step by Step
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The document outlines a two-book writing series for young English learners, introducing them to paragraph writing and fundamental brainstorming techniques. It describes key features such as relatable themes, leveled vocabulary, and various activities to engage students while guiding them through the writing process. Additionally, it includes information about supplementary materials and digital resources designed to motivate and support teachers and students alike.
Writing Step by Step
- 1. WRITING 1 STEP BY STEP
- 2. Content Overview Key Features Walkthrough • Student Book • Workbook • Supplementary Materials
- 3. Overview • Two-book writing series designed for young students of English. • Students are introduced to paragraph form and the basics of the writing process, including essential brainstorming methods. • Introduces students to increasingly complex paragraphs-from de scriptive and narrative to argumentative-to parallel students dev eloping fluency.
- 4. Key Features • Unit themes and topics that young learners can relate to • Carefully leveled vocabulary and structures • Wide variety of activity types to maintain interest • Guided practice with important steps in the writing process • Exposure to different paragraph types
- 5. Student book Target Language and Warm-up The first two pages of each unit present five of the target vocabulary items for the unit. This presentation is followed by a number of activities that guide students through practicing both writing skills and the vocabulary items in activities with progressively less support. Part(A):Have students create definitions or brainstorm example sentences using the target words. Part(B): Have students make new questions related to the target vocabulary. Part(C):Have students work in pairs to write their own descriptions of each picture using whatever vocabulary they know.
- 6. Student book Part (D): Have students retell the story from the point of view of one of the other people/characters shown or from a first-person point of view placing themselves in the story. Part (E): Have students create their own responses to the problem using the target language. All new responses should be shared with the class.
- 7. Student book Practice Pages three and four of each unit present writing tasks that focus students on the unit’s target grammar as well as practice guided process writing for paragraphs. Additional practice for Practice activities may include the following: Part (A): Have students create one more sentence describing an object or an action depicted in the illustration. Part (B): Have students replace one or two words in each sentence to create new sentences following the patterns provided.
- 8. Student book Part (C): Have students work in pairs to come up with one more support for and against the writing topic. The extra topics should be shared with the whole class. Then any student may choose to use the idea in his or her paragraph.
- 9. Student book Challenge Page five of each unit presents a sample paragraph followed by a guided brainstorming activity. Students can write paragraphs about their own experiences or opinions. Part(A): Have the students analyze the sample response by listing the sentences related to the introduction, support, and conclusion in outline form. Part (B): Have the class work in pairs. Pairs interview their partners using the questions provided. Students then write a paragraph about their classmates using the information they have collected in the interviews.
- 10. Student book Quiz Page six of each unit provides consolidation activities in the form of a writing quiz. Among the tasks that may appear on a quiz are the following activity types: picture description with subject prompts, a series of three related information prompts to guide writing on a given topic, a description of a situation that requires writing suggestions or excuses, picture-based storytelling, or an email/invitation writing activity.
- 11. Workbook
- 12. Work book Extra vocabulary practice activities to strengthen students’ vocabulary comprehension and fluency . Students can review the target vocabulary and check their understanding of words. The exercise enables students to deepen their understanding by identifying and correcting the target words.
- 13. Work book Sentence writing exercise to practice skills they have learned throughout the unit and use them to answer the questions. A variety of exercises are used to provide students more autonomy. They will practice knowledge and independent learning by making conversation with unscrambled conversation.
- 14. Supplementary Materials • Lesson Plan • Answer Key • Tips and Ideas • Assessment
- 15. Student Digital Materials Fun games and activities to motivate learners outside the classroom! Class Booster
- 16. Classroom Digital Materials Teacher’s Class Kit enables teachers to project “Student Book” on the interactive whiteboard or though a projector to the whole class! Teacher’s Class Kit
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