Harry Wong says way to successful teaching is no mystery
Jan 25, 2009
I have been working for months now, teaching my students how to write an essay. For the most part, I am very happy with everyone's progress. On the other hand, I have several students who choose to write their ENTIRE essay as a conversation. I have tried everything I know to show them that this is not how is should be done and is honestly harder on them to try and do it this way. For example, for the last essay, students wrote about a day they found a magic carpet. They wrote about what they did, where they went and what they saw. (This is practice for a timed writing assessment we have coming up next week.) This is an example of what I got:
Mom, where were you? I'll lay down on the carpet. Whoosh! I'm flying and can't control it. Mom! Anyone!
Okay, don't panic, I am only 37,000 feet in the...See More
CMR
First I would praise the kids for their creativity and style of writing (I struggle with my kids not sounding like robots during creative writing pieces), but explain again what you're looking. The next step, which is very vital, is to actually model writing an essay yourself. Go through all the steps and either write it at that moment on the overh...See More
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