Writing to a prompt is
where students draw from prior knowledge and experience to continue a writing
piece that can be started topics or scenarios to choose from which sparks their
interests. They decide what is relevant
information to incorporate in the piece by thinking critically. They must be
interested in the topic for them to produce information and the teacher may
have to provide experiences in by showing pictures videos or taking them on a
field trip. These pieces of writing are generally meaningful as they involve
real world experiences. Teachers can provide structures to guide them in this
process and also use this to develop research skills as they can be given
topics to research and write on. The writing is completely up to them as they
write based on their interpretation of the subjects.
Teachers can provide grade four students with
topics to write on as prompts that are of interest to them as they can write
short paragraphs based on their experience with a topics. This can also be
incorporated in journal entries after a lesson.
By Prakash Seebarran
This is a means by which educators can directly impact student's creativity by providing them with writing prompts outside of the ordinary. For instance, writing to the prompt: I love my pet dragon or If I had wings I would.... I do believe this increases their motivation.
ReplyDeleteI find that this is an effective writing strategy to develop students' writing because they will depend on their experience to write on. It is also very important that teachers make sure that their students are provided these experiences. Personally I like the idea of having them watch an exiting silent movie and have them write about what they saw. It is an excellent exercise for them to develop their writing skills in terms of descriptive and vocabulary.
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