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What-Why-How Strategy
 INTRODUCTION

In this activity we are going to explain the WHAT-WHY-HOW

strategy, that helps to clarify your opinion, identify reasons to
support your opinion, and develop evidence to support each
reason.
The purpose of this form is to help you develop and record
your ideas about the topic. All your ideas will be helpful when
you start drafting your paper.
Before sitting down to whack out that report, doing a quick
think-through first. The best tool for this is the What-Why-How
Strategy, which makes it faster and easier to build out a logical
framework for your report, and to include the right details and
support.
 WHAT-WHY-HOW
Strategy

helps to clarify your opinion identify reasons to support your opinion, and
develop evidence to support each reason

What Why How

Do you think? Do you know?

Do you think it? (reason)
(statement) (support)

This is your This is where you

opinion. provide support for
This is where you state
Sometimes a single your statement and
you’re the reason or
sentence will be all reasons. For every
rationale for your
you need. reason, you should
opinion.
You can also think have at least one
of it as your main supporting detail:
idea.

Example: You can train Example: My dog can

Example: I think dogs them to do all kinds of sit and fetch a ball or a
make better pets than cats cool things. cats are stick, and he can even
for several reasons. almost impossible to catch a Frisbee in the
train. air when I throw it.
 conclusion

This writing strategy has helped my students effectively

communicate their opinions in their writing. They first use this
organizer called a "What-Why-How" chart.
What- is where students write their own opinion. It could be a
simple as one sentence. Or students can think of this What as
their thesis statement.
Why- is where students explain their reasons for thinking what
they did in the What. Students can state these reasons as a
paragraph. There should be more than one reason.
How- is where students write down their support for their thesis.
Students can use this chart as the beginnings of an essay. Each
line can become a paragraph.
Annexes
The Transitions-Actions-Details

Strategy
 Introduction

The Transition-action-details strategy is considered the best

strategy when you need to transmit information in a particular
order, since it uses a step-by-step approach so that the
composition carried out by the students is well structured.
Among some exercises that this strategy includes are:
brainstorming, organization: TAD table, writing: draft, revision:
revision of content and style, editing: punctuation, spelling. This
strategy uses a graphic organizer, which is a way of structuring
information or organizing important aspects of a concept or topic.

Definition of Transition-Action-
Details Strategy
Characteristics in TAD Chart Strategy
Tips on Transition-Action-
Details Strategy
Use the Transition-Action-Details
Strategy
These are short phrases like “Then” or
Transition “After a while” or “In the beginning” that
help to introduce each new action in the
sequence
These are the actual events (the things
Action that happened listed in the order in which
they occurred.
This is additional information about each
action. For each action, your audience
Details will probably have two or three important
questions you need to answer. These
answers are your details.
a) It uses step by step approach
b) It uses graphic organizer
c) It fits for any composition such
as: narrative and recount.
❖ Testing out your sequencing
❖ Filling in the details
❖ Don’t worry about the
transitions
❖ The right number of actions
❖ Working with the chart
• Procedures and Processes
• Meeting, Conference or Trip Reports
• Driving directions
• Project Plans
• Résumés
• Technical Documentation or Manuals
 Conclusion
The most difficult part of the writing process is starting it,
writing is an activity that involves stages, therefore students
require process, practice and some steps to be able to write and
become a good writer. The interest of the students is one of the
main factors to achieve the objective of teaching - learning
English.

The Transition - Action - Detail strategy is a means to help

the teacher increase students' motivation to learn to write. It is
the best strategy when you need to transmit information in a
particular order.

Transition-Action-Details is a strategy which very useful

and helpful to clarify concepts and ideas. This strategy will help
the students learn to be specific. Transition-Action-Details uses
a chart to help students brainstorm their ideas. It means in TAD,
teacher provide a helpful tool or scaffolding.
Annexes
 Example of Transition-Action-Details Chart
TRANSITION ACTION DETAILS
(introduce the action) (describe what happened) (Answer audience questions)

a. Transition column fill with the introduction for each action.

b. Action column fill with the actual events or what is happenned.
c. Details colunm fill with our answer for audience questions.
Example
TRANSITION ACTION DETAILS
Once upon a time Lived a kind young prince named He was loved
Jonathan He was adored by is people
His two close friends were Peter Piper, the servant
of the palace and Franklin Greedy, the son of an
Aristocrat.

One Day The Prince, Peter Piper, and Franklin Suddenly a group of bandits attacked the three boys
Greedy were walking through the near an old house.
forest. They entered the old house and blockaded the gate
and doors.
The three boys were trapped inside the house.
Steve Peha (2003)