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Chong, Ivan – English Teaching Forum, 2017
In writing instruction, teachers often struggle with developing engaging and interactive activities given constraints such as large classes and packed teaching schedules. A purposeful and appealing pre-task can energize the writing process and set the context for the subsequent writing task. With this purpose in mind, the author designed the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Photography, Diaries
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Whitney, Anne; Blau, Sheridan; Bright, Alison; Cabe, Rosemary; Dewar, Tim; Levin, Jason; Macias, Roseanne; Rogers, Paul – English Education, 2008
With respect to the writing process in particular, a now well-established body of research demonstrates that process-oriented writing instruction benefits student achievement in writing. Process-oriented terms and concepts have entered the material environment of America's schools, in textbooks and curricula even where the theoretical bases…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Process Approach (Writing)
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Beck, James P. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Describes method in which students write a draft requiring some writing skill before learning about that skill. Concludes that predrafting (1) enforces first-drafting; (2) shows students their natural writing abilities; (3) emphasizes discovery of substance first, rules and form second; (4) promotes an active student role; (5) arranges learning in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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Karloff, Kenneth – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Adapts Edward de Bono's "Intermediate Impossible" strategy--for considering ideas that normally would be discarded as stepping-stones to new ideas--for use as a prewriting activity to enhance creative problem solving. (HTH)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, High Schools, Higher Education, Prewriting
Chicago Board of Education, IL. – 1986
Developed to provide supplementary instructional strategies for reading teachers at the kindergarten level, this booklet presents the instructional module for completing patterns, a component of the Comprehensive Reading Program of the Chicago Public Schools. After an overview of the module, activities are suggested for the following areas:…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Pattern Recognition, Prewriting
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Washington, Eugene – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1985
Discusses the heuristic role of yes-no questions in college composition and provides two such methods for brainstorming and focusing. Presents a binary graph device ("Matrix") that correlates subjects and concerns to generate yes-no questions. Also presents a flow-chart model structuring information in the question-evidence-resolution pattern. (JG)
Descriptors: Heuristics, Higher Education, Language Usage, Prewriting
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First, Cynthia G.; And Others – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1995
Teaching writing as a process is advocated to enhance a student's metacognitive skills and understanding of writing. The process can be used with students who have mild disabilities. Prewriting techniques such as clustering and color coding are explained, along with three teacher options for prewriting instruction to address class and student…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Mild Disabilities
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Tompkins, Gail E.; Camp, Donna J. – Childhood Education, 1988
Describes four prewriting techniques that elementary and middle grade students can use to gather and organize ideas for writing, and by so doing, cure writer's block. Techniques discussed are: (1) brainstorming; (2) clustering; (3) freewriting; and (4) cubing.
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Free Writing
Pleasant Valley Community School District, IA. – 1982
The processes of prewriting, writing, revising, and proofreading are outlined in this four-page guide for writing center volunteers. Each section lists "things to remember" and provides ideas on "how to help students" when teaching these four stages of the writing process. (JW)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
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Crealock, Carol – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
The nine-step grid strategy provides prompts in both structure and content areas to improve the narrative writing skills of students with learning disabilities. The steps include developing a story grid with characters, setting, action, emotion, and so on; planning and writing the story; and completing both cognitive and technical edits. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Models, Prewriting
Robitaille, Marilyn M. – 1987
Designed to combine the science and the art of teaching composition, this series of assignments encourages junior high and high school writing students to explore tone, original visual images, point of view, and other literary techniques. One assignment asks students to write a number of paragraphs alternately using sarcasm, humor, melancholy, and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Instructional Innovation, Prewriting
Jenseth, Richard – 1984
The expressive reading journal aims to break through student passivity by asking students to write extensively and expressively about what they read, each time they read, and to make discoveries and take possession of what they read. This type of journal in the academic course depends for its usefulness on the nature of expressive language, the…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Reading Improvement, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Olson, Mary Ann, Ed.; Baer, Teddi, Ed. – The Idea Factory, 1984
Intended for writing teachers, the activities in this issue blend right/left brain lessons--kinesthetic, spatial, and playful--to provide students with prewriting experience. The activities include the following: (1) creativity olympics, such as finding criteria by which large groups of students may subdivide themselves into successively smaller…
Descriptors: Creativity, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities, Middle Schools
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Vaughn, Margaret – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Explains how journal writing, taught with some direction, can guide students' writing and provide them with a sense of self-discovery. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Personal Narratives, Prewriting
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King, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
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