Quick Write

Recently we have been discussing different strategies to teach students how to write the two I have researched are Sitton Spelling and the Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills.

I found both strategies to be extremely beneficial for students. Sitton Spelling is a great program which has the students building on suffixes which in return broadens their vocabulary. Also with this program, the students are constantly being held accountable for their grammer and spelling. This strategy is different from your normal Friday mastery test, in the sense that the students are constantly building on words and each students word list differs from week to week. 

With Be Efficient and Integrate Basic Skills, this explains how students need to focus on their audience and clearly use their voices throughout their writing. When teaching student to become better writers, we as the teachers need to demonstrate and verbally walk our students through our thinking process. Doing this will help them understand why we chose the words and sentence structures we did, and will help them relate to the topic more easily. We also need to help our students understand that when writing they need to consider the audience they are writing too. In many aspects this helps the students write more easily.