Handwriting

&

Writing

Prepared By

Sarah Al-Aydi

Mai Al-Wahaidi

Mabrouka Abu Taema

IntroductionIntroductionLanguage Skills

WritingThe importance of writing

Handwriting VS Writing

Quotes

Language Skills

Main SkillsReading

WritingListening

Speaking

Sub skillsPronunciatio

n

Spelling

Grammar

Vocabulary

Writing is a method of representing thoughts, ideas, opinions through language in

visual or tactile form.

Why Do We Teach Writing?

•►It guides Ss to express themselves and to translate their thoughts.

•►It enables Ss to Communicate with others (e-mail, letters)

•►It develops Ss language skills.

• ♣ Perceptual- psychomotor domain.

• ♣ It might be purely an art form.• ♣ It can be a functional tool.

Handwritin

g

• ♣ Cognitive Domain.• ♣ Synthetic Objective• ♣ It follows certain steps and

aims at expressing a point. Writing

Quotes

“Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it. “ Anne Sullivan

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

“All writing is a process of elimination.“ Martha Albrand

Handwriting and Writingin

English for Palestine

Types of Writing in E4P

Creative

Academic

GRADE 8, UNIT 7, PAGE 47

GRADE 12, UNIT 6, PAGE 65

E4P teaches Writing in Stages according to

The Writing process The level

English for Palestine’s Writing stages

GRADE 11, UNIT 3, PAGE 31

Writing Stages according to the levelExplanation Gra

deStage

☻Exercises focus on teaching students how to write letters correctly and words about pictures (Handwriting)

1-2 1st

☻Exercises concentrate in writing complete short sentences by answering questions or a picture.

4-3 1st

☻Students learn to describe pictures and to write long sentencesThey learn to follow simple punctuation rules (comma, fullstop, etc).

5-6 2nd

☻Ss learn to write paragraphs, letters (informal-formal).The Exercises develop paragraphs’ structure (topic sentences, coherence..etc)

7-10 2nd

☻Ss learn to write essays, letters(formal-informal), advanced punctuation.

11-12 3rd

GRADE 2, UNIT 1, PAGE 5

GRADE 3, UNIT 16, PAGE 41

GRADE 6, UNIT 17, PAGE 73

(WB)GRADE 9, UNIT 3, PAGE 16

GRADE 11, UNIT 6, PAGE 65

Handwriting Skills involve

• Holding the pencil in the right way.• Matching between the sight and the hand’s

movement. • Getting used to legible handwriting.• Differentiation between capital and small

letters. • Writing from left to

right.

Lower Levels

Page Unit Grade

47 8 1

GRADE 1, UNIT 8, PAGE 47

• Handwriting skills focus here on the legible handwriting.

• The correct format of words, sentences, letters paragraphs and (leaving spaces, margin, etc)

Higher Levels

Handwriting Skills involve

Page Unit Grade

37 8 7

GRADE 7, UNIT 8, PAGE 37

Writing models and their pedagogical advantages

Give Ss steps to follow

Motivate Ss to write

Facilitate the writing

exercises

E4P largely uses examples and models

Examples and Models in Writing Exercises

Task Page Lesson

Unit

Grade

Stage

Writing Sentences

11 Period 2

2 4th 1st

Writing Composition

25 10 2 11th 3rd

GRADE 4, UNIT 2, PAGE 11

GRADE 11, UNIT 2, PAGE 25

Writing Exercises’ models Sufficiency

They enable Ss to write about the given tasks .

The examples suit the Ss Stages .

They are presented in different ways .

Sufficient

Examples

The different tasks in the unit facilitate the writing

exercise) reading

passages & picture(

Too Difficult Exercises!!?

Difficulty depends on the Ss’ level and the individual differences .

We can’t assume the existence of the TOO

difficult extreme .

Difficulty relies on the amount of students knowledge of familiar and unfamiliar information

Task Page Lesson

Unit

Grade

Stage

Writing Paragraphs

93 4 23 7th 2nd

Writing Essay 94 10 9 12th 3rd

Difficult Writing Exercises

GRADE 12, UNIT 9, PAGE 94

GRADE 7 WB

Variety of

Exercises

Fill the gaps

Order sentences

Write a short paragraph

Describe a picture

Answer WH Q then write a paragraph

Complete the table then write

Summarize

Follow the given model (letters)

Oder a story then write a paragraph

Variety OF Writing Exercises

Task Page Lesson

Unit

Grade

Stage

Completing sentences

5 Period 2

10 2nd 1st

Answering questions and

following a model

3 3 1 10th

WB 3rd

GRADE 2, UNIT 10, PAGE 5

GRADE 10, UNIT 1, PAGE 3 (WORKBOOK)

Uninteresting Topic in E4P Writing Exercises

☼Some of E4P writing exercises require Ss to write about topics that don’t attract their interest .

☼ The disinterest may results from1- Boring Topics2- Topics that are out of the students’ scope of interest. 3-The continues repetition of some points(letters- comma’s usage)

Uninteresting Topic in Writing Exercise (Ss P.O.V).

Task Page Lesson

Unit

Grade

Stage

Complete the paragraph

64,65 5,6 11 8th 2nd

Writing composition

55 10 5 12th 3rd

GRADE 8, UNIT 11, PAGE 64,65 (WB)

GRADE 12, UNIT 5, PAGE 55

Writing Exercises and Themes

▓Relating the tasks mostly to the unit’s\lesson’s themes

especially in the upper levels

◙ Such strategy enables Ss to collect ideas, vocabularies and expressions from

the unit and its themes which facilitates the writing process

◙ This also relates their ability to do the task to the previous given information.

English for Palestine’s writing exercises are characterized by: .

Relevant Writing exercisesTask Page Lesso

n Unit

Grade

Stage

Developing Paragraphs

33 4 7 7th 2nd

Punctuation Guided writing

15 10 1 11th 3rd

Task Page Lesson

Unit

Grade

Stage

Making sentences

89 4 21 6th 2nd

Irrelevant Writing exercises

GRADE 7, UNIT 7, PAGE 33

GRADE 11, UNIT 1, PAGE 15

GRADE 6, UNIT 21, PAGE 89

Problems and Suggestions in E4P’s

Writing Tasks

Why do students find difficulty in writing ?

Teachers tend to ignore writing exercises.

The undesired mixture between writing and other skills’ tasks.

Lack of application in schools.

The absence of constructive feedback.

How can we teach writing effectively?

Extra excises.

Further Application of the tasks in Ss daily life.

Constructive feedback.

Productive interaction between teachers and their students.

Visual aid methods.

Email, blogs and facebook usage.

Note

Thank You For PayingAttention

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