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Dozie Herbruck
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University School
20701 Brantley Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44122

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Some Ideas for Teaching

There are many different programs and ideas designed to teach the various facets of writing. Depending on the needs of the students and the instruction you want to deliver, you should design your own program accordingly, drawing from different programs and ideas. It is most important that you teach children, rather than programs. Never let a program or idea supercede the needs of the students you teach. The following are some important subsets of writing, with suggestions of programs or techniques that could help develop them.

Facets of Writing

Idea Generation

Sentence Clarity and Richness of Expression

Paragraph organization

Self-awareness as a Writer

Mechanics of Writing

Idea Generation

Concept	Materials	Author, Company
List Making	Writing Skills I and II	Diana Hanbury King
Mapping	Inspiration software	Inspiration.com
Visualizing	Visualizing and Verbalizing	Nanci Bell
Story Ideas	Photographs	from the internet or local site
Story Ideas / Sequence	Photographs from home- for organizing & printing	IMAGE EXPERT(TM) for windows, Version 1.8.3
Story Ideas	Tape Recorder - to separate ideas from mechanics	Radio Shack Cat. No. 14-1130

Sentence Clarity and richness of expression

Concept	Materials	Author, Company
Sentence Building	Framing Your Thoughts	Enfield & Greene
Adding Detail	Visualizing and Verbalizing	Nanci Bell

Paragraph understanding

Concept	Materials	Author, Company
Building Paragraphs	List Making Creating topics from lists Topics into topic sentences Expanding lists into paragraphs Expanding paragraphs into essay	Writing Skills Diana Hanbury King
Understanding Paragraph Types	Descriptive Narrative Example Compare & Contrast Definition Classification Reason Process	Paragraph Writing Evan-Moor Corp.

Writing Mechanics

Concept	Materials	Author, Company
Spelling	Software - Spelling 1 to 5 Spelling 5-8	Essential Skills Software www.essentialskills.net
Handwriting	Software for D'Nealean & Cursive writing fonts	Teacher Font Pack www.educationalfontware.com
Keyboarding	Light, inexpensive keyboard	Alphasmart Pro www.alphasmart.com
Keyboarding	Learn to type software	Type to Learn Sunburst Communications

Self-awareness as a writer

Concept	Materials	Author, Company
Self-editing	rubrics	student or teacher made
Peer editing
Pride/Ownership	Published books	software - PageMaker 7.0 www.Adobe.com

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updated 11/17/02

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