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13. Using the creative memory writing task to build learners’ skills
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- Educators should use the drafting and re-drafting process to focus on particular writing skills. Again, refer back to Module 2 in this series which looked at the deliberate acts of teaching that can be used to strengthen learners’ knowledge, skills and strategies.
- Keep your interventions at a ‘big picture’ level first – e.g. around internal structure such as the order of ideas or paragraphing. Talk about cohesion, what makes a piece of writing ‘tight’ from start to finish.
- Then drop into other technical skills such as spelling and punctuation.
- At the same time, encourage learners to reflect on the process they are engaged in so that they will be able to apply it to other writing tasks.
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