Teaching Writing Skills

One part of Language Arts is teaching writing skills. Writing Curriculum can be broken down into a number of skill sets such as Handwriting and Composition, Spelling and Vocabulary and Formal Grammar. What do we want to develop in these areas in our homeschool writing curriculum?

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• Composition and Handwriting
  
  • To correctly form the lower, then upper case letters.
  • To copy words.
  • To copy sentences.
  • To copy paragraphs.
  • To orally narrate a story.
  • To copy own narrations.
  • To write own narrations.
  • To write friendly letters, notes and cards.
  • To write journal entries.
  • To write creative stories, narratives and poems
  • To revise written work, checking for punctuation.
  • To write book reports
  • To write summaries from encyclopedia articles.
  • To write well-constructed sentences- formal teaching.
  • To write well-constructed paragraphs- formal teaching.
  • To write well-constructed essays- formal teaching.
  • To use a variety of forms of writing where appropriate and across subject areas.
  • Essay Writing- expository writing – essays of explanation.
  • Play writing
  • Persuasive essay writing.
  • Biographies
  • Short Stories
  • Multimedia presentations
  • Research papers
  • Speech writing
  • Debates
  • Historical fiction writing.
  • Literary response essays
  • Compare and contrast essays
  • Cause/Effect essays

• Spelling and Vocabulary
  
  • To teach phonics as a base for spelling.
  • Teach the spelling rules.
  • Apply the spelling rules
  • Learn rules for adding endings.
  • Learn to spell vocabulary and content words according to subject areas- colours, days of the week, months, numbers
  • Learn spelling words in the context of own writing- develop own spelling list.
  • Apply syllabification rules to aid spelling of words.
  • Dictionary skills
  • Revise work, edit, identify incorrect spelling and re-write correctly.
  • Work with antonyms, synonyms,
  • Learn and identify prefixes, suffixes, roots
  • Increase vocabulary

• Grammar
  
  • Learn eight parts of speech
  • Learn the relationships of the parts of speech to eachother.
  • Subject and Predicate
  • Noun functions
  • Clauses
  • Phrases
  • Diagramming - see it in action in a lesson plan
  • Un-complicate a sentence- identify the main point.
  • Dress up a sentence- make it complex.

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