Teaching writting

Teaching writting

1. Research findings

   • Association
     • Interrelationship of skills
       • writting
       • listening
       • speaking
   • Processing method
     • Bottom-up (microscope)
       • Interactive reading
     • Top-down (eagle eye)
   • Schema Theory
     • Printted word
       • No meaning
       • Reader brings information
         • Knowledge, emotion, expirience and culture= meaning
     • Schemata (plural)
       • Content schimata
       • Formal schimata
   • Affect and culture
   • Extensive reading
     • Free voluntary reading
       • Reading Hability, Linguistic compitence, vocabulary, spelling, writting
     • Reading for pleasure
   • Adult literacy training
     • Bottom-up + top down
     • Lay basic foundations

2. Types of written language

   • 100´s of diferent types of written text
     • letters, memos, maps, invitations, etc.
       • We know the pourpose of
         • therefore we know to:
           • select
             • long term memory
           • not select
             • short term memory

3. Characteristics of written language

   • Permanence, processing time, distance, orthography, complexity and vocabulary

4. Microskills for reading comprehension

   • Phonics aproaches can prove useful

5. Strategies for reading comprehension

   • bottom-up related procedures
   • enhance top-down processes

6. Types of classroom reading performances

   • Oral
   • Silent
     • Intensive
     • Extensive

7. Principles for designing interactive reading techniques

   • Focus on reading skills
   • Ample time for extensive reading