This week 2nd November to 6th November the focused was placed on poetry writing , developing strategic writers and key features of the writing process.
The presentation on poetry writing was very informative. It was deemed informative because you learned what poetry is all about and what it entailed. Poetry is very unique for students, because they are able to express their emotions through the use of poetry. Their poems can be about anything that they are interested or what they wish to explore. Also, it made reference to poetic devices, such as alliteration, rhyme, assonance, figurative language, onomatopoeia, personification etc. These devices would help the readers to create mental images while reading the poems. There are many forms of poems that we usually see being one interesting one is the free versed poems. These poems do not rhyme so word choice and visual images are very important. Examples of free verse poems are acrostic poems, bilingual poems, concrete poems, found poems. list poems, odes and poems for two voices
Example of an ode poem:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/80150068352671030/
Example of acrostic poem
Example of concrete poem:
Example of bilingual poem
http://blinklanglit.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-am-i-bilingual-speaker.html
Example of list poems
Example of poems for two voices
In helping students become strategic writers we are helping them to learn cognitive strategies that include reading, mathematical and scientific investigation strategies and the acquisition of the writing strategies helps with the cognitive development. These strategies helps students to organize their ideas, monitor and evaluate their work, revise their work and identify spelling errors and any other problems. There are twelve strategies that can be used. They are elaborating, evaluating, formatting, generating, monitoring, narrowing, organizing, proofreading, questioning, rereading, revising and setting goals. These strategies have specific activities that can be done for them to bring out the strategy. In elaborating one can do the "Explode the moment activity or the Complete the snapshots activity." Explode the moment is where the writers choose a moment and expand it by adding vivid details to describe the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings related to the moment, Complete the snapshots activity is when students use descriptive language to create a written picture of a moment in time.
The key features outlined in the writing process would help the teachers to guide their students thoroughly through the writing process. It suggests what students should do at each stage of their writing.
Stage 1: Prewriting - Choose a topic; Gather and organize ideas; Consider the audience; Identify the purpose of the writing; Choose an appropriate genre.
Stage 2: Drafting - Write a rough draft; Craft leads to grad reader's attention; Emphasize content rather than conventions.
Stage 3: Revising - Share drafts in revising groups; Participate constructively in discussions about classmates' draft; Make changes to reflect the comments of classmates and the teacher; Make substantive rather than only minor changes between the first and final drafts.
Stage 4: Editing - Set drafts aside for a few days; Proofread compositions to locate errors; Correct spelling, capitalization; punctuation and grammar errors.
Stage 5: Publishing - Publish writing in an appropriate form; Share completed writing with an appropriate audience
R.Hazel
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ReplyDeleteThis information is very useful when it comes to composition. It helps students to develop their writing skills and also help them to produce better writing pieces.
ReplyDeleteThe information given will enable teachers to assist their students in becoming effective writers.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher when teaching the genre of poetry it in very important that we are informed and knowledgeable of the different types of poems that would help students in becoming goody poetry writers.
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