Teaching Writing in Primary School

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Teaching Writing in Primary School

Kobyzeva T.V.
Collegium “Berehynya”
Cherkasy 2010
Motto: “Writing is a means of
teaching a foreign languages”

Writing

Graphemes Sentences

Words Phrases
Writing

Penmanship Composition

Spelling
The ways of improving writing habits

Writing various
Writing letters of the exercises which lead pupils
English alphabet to express their thoughts

Converting speech sounds Correct spelling of


into their symbols-letters word phrases
and letter combinations And sentences
Important Factors in Forming Writing Habits
Auditory perception of a sound, a
word, a phrase, a sentence.

Articulation of a sound, a word, a


phrase, a sentence by the pupil who
writes

Visual perception of letters or letter


combinations which stand for sounds.

The movements of the muscles of the


hand in writing.

Conscious approach
Difficulties in spelling

Historical Phonetic
(earlier periods of history) (reflects pronunciation)

Leg
Busy
Morphological
Pat
Brought
composition
daughter Asked
Answered

I – eye rode - road right - write tail - tale

city - cities play - played write - writing happy - happier sit - sitting
How to improve spelling

Writing sentences
Copying Dictation on a given pattern
Writing answers to
given questions
Visual dictation Dictation drill

Self - dictation
Techniques for better

Oral questions Using pictures

After auding-questions
Silent reading
On the content
Exercises
Writing
Composition
To write a few questions on
the text To write a description
paragraph
To make a few statements on
the picture (set of pictures)
To give a written annotation
on the text
To answer the questions
To write a letter
Recommended Techniques

A student reads and


Students exchange A student counts
corrects
their works his mistakes
mistakes in his work

A student consults the Students should


blackboard with right write both in class
variants and at home
References
“The Practice of English Language
Teaching” J. Harmer;
“A Course Of language Teaching. Practice
and Theory” Penny Ur;
“Methods of Teaching English” G.V.Rogova

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