Well hello again! This week we read two different articles that actually proved to be very helpful and one of which really opened my eyes to teaching young students writing. The first article we read was Teaching Phonemic Awareness. This article was all about teaching kids who struggle with hearing the words and how they are supposed to sound. This is extrmely important, because not only are they not hearing the word correctly, they are spelling the words wrong because they are not hearing them right. The article gave several strategies as to how to correct this and show students how words are built and how they sound.
The second article was titled Every Mark on the Page: Educating Family and Community Members about Young Children's Writing. This one was the real eye-opener. The author of the article kept coming back to the idea that family members and members of the community always hone in on spelling errors. The argument of the author was that they shouldn't only be focusing on this. A lot of kids make errors like making a '9' when trying to write the letter 'P'. This is them, a lot of the time, testing their limits and being "creative". Instead, members of the community and families should be focusing more on what the child is trying to write about. Does he/she use sentence fluency? Is he/she making sense as they write? Is is cohesive? Is is structured well? Then once we see that they are making sense and know what they are writing about and see that they are making an attempt to structure their writing, we can go back and see the grammar mistakes. Alternatively, we should have the student go back and see/find their mistakes.
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