We've touched on the four commonly identified reading components: Alphabetics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. We could certainly take off on further discussions about those! Are they in chronological order? Can they all be addressed at the same time? If you want to target those, start a new discussion thread, and we'll jump right in to extend it into a piece of art! Don't know how? Go to the LINCS Help Page, and you'll find a list of fantastic tutorials on getting a lot of things done, including opening a discussion thread!
What about writing? When should new adult readers start writing? What should they start writing? If that discussion appeals to you, please start a discussion thread, and let's dive into that as well. There are many views on that issue!
When it comes to more advanced writing, such as that of the dreaded college essay, are there steps or stages that can guide students to develop better habits that provide incentives to producing better writing? An 8-minute video, by Jamie Edwards, a teacher with 24 years of experience and creator of "PowerEd Plans: Developing the Whole Writer" discusses stages.
"All the world's a stage and, all the men and women... " Shakespeare
Jamie claims that all good writers follow stages in the writing process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Proofreading, and Final Draft.
Do you have more advanced students follow those or other stages in developing essays? Do they match Jamie's list? I know that as a writing teacher, the first step is one I always insisted that students apply: Prewriting. I called it Brainstorming. Brainstorming can take so many forms, depending on the learning preferences of students: outlining, doodling, graphic organizers, pictures, etc. My initial question was always, where does good writing start? Pen, paper, keyboard? Never! Writing starts here (pointing to my head). That's where we are going to start.
What kinds of brainstorming strategies do you use to prepare students to write essays or other formal types of writing?
Leecy