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Using Real-World Connections to Improve Writing Ashley N. Quinones Sul Ross State University. CONTENTS. ✎ Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..1 ✎ How to engage students into writing……………………………………………………..................2 ✎ The schema theory………………………………………………………………………………….3 ✎ Activate knowledge in the students’ minds…………………………………………………………4 ✎ Writing Anxiety……………………………………………………………………………………..5 ✎ Different ways to connect with the students………………………………………………………...6 ✎ Brainstorming……………………………………………………………………………………...7 ✎ Social Stress………………………………………………………………………………………..8 ✎ Prewriting……………………………………………………………………………………..........9 ✎ Writing Skills…………………………………………………………………………………….....10 ✎ Grammar……………………………………………………………………………………...........11 ✎ Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………….........12 ✎ Thank You slide…………………………………………………………………………………….13 Introduction Real world connections help to promote student achievement through learning. Without a connection, learning cannot occur since it does not meet the interest of the students. Making real world connections is important to develop the student’s skills. It helps the students to have a better delivery and development while writing; a student needs to be able to connect with a topic in order to be able to learn. There are many situations where the student can connect with what they are trying to write about. 1 How to engage students into Writing: ✎ ✎ ✎ ✎ ✎ Allowing the students to take control over what they want to write about . Connect the topic to their world. Share your writing journey. Integrate writing into larger projects. Make it fun. 2 3 The Schema Theory It explains how learning starts when the learner tries to integrate a new type of knowledge into their prior knowledge: ● Organizes the knowledge into the long-term memory by putting the information in different categories. ● Each category contains related information. ● When the knowledge gets divided into the category, there is an expectation for the future knowledge the learner will have. ● The expectations that are set up for each category will help the learner to relate the future knowledge into the category that satisfies all the expectations. ● Within this framework there would be clusters of related knowledge, experiences, feelings, and ideas that will help the learner’s interpretations, expectations, and attention as ideas are understood. ● Without the schemata to help comprehension, the learner could easily interpret ideas out of context or put the new information into the wrong place . Activate knowledge in the students’ minds. Group Discussions To relate the new concepts with the prior knowledge they had. This way the students can make connections. Anticipation Guides Ask students to think, write, and/or talk about their opinions on key themes or big ideas contained in upcoming texts and units of study. Multimedia Before starting a new unit or text. Show students a related video or slideshow. 4 5 Writing Anxiety ✒ ✒ ✒ ✒ Most people become anxious when they have difficulty or a negative experience while writing. When the writer has lack of interest in the topic, it is harder to concentrate or have a good development. If the writer does not connect with the topic, then it would be difficult to succeed in the writing process. Writers often put pressure on themselves because writing is a form of showing and sharing their own knowledge. Different ways to connect with the students. Students’ Interest Students’ Experiences Significant Issues By asking student to create a presentation to share their knowledge about a topic they care about. Students bring their unique experiences and perspectives into a project. There is a variety of topics in the world that can affect the students these topics could include racism, poverty, and social media. 6 Brainstorming: Allows the students to think freely . Encourages the efficiency for solving problems and have more creative ideas. Helps to encourage students to focus on a topic by developing connections they previously had. Helps the student to come out with ideas or words related to that specific topic . 7 8 Social Stress Results from the person’s social environment . Students often are placed in stressful situations due to the expectations to always perform better than another student. Students do not feel comfortable sharing their ideas or opinions with others because they are scared of failure. It is important to implement informal brainstorming that way the student can express themselves. Making connections between students is also very important as they are sharing a space and a common goal. Making connections between students helps to develop a positive environment that will drive instruction. Prewriting 9 Freewriting Clustering Consist of writing freely whatever comes to mind any sentences, phrases, or words, without worrying about the grammar or the punctuation. Used to make relationships between our ideas, to cluster ideas the topic is written at the center of the paper, then proceed to draw a circle around it, and then add more ideas separated in their own circle and connecting them with lines. 10 Writing Skills ♦ Allows the students to communicate their message with clarity. ♦ Helps students to reach to a larger number of readers. ♦ Writing is a skill that can always be learned and improved. ♦ Checking for grammar errors: Identify misspelled words. Finding punctuation errors. Run-on Sentence or Comma Splice. ♦ Best way for checking a text is to read it aloud. 11 Grammar Helps the reader’s comprehension Important to provide the correct information Is the structure that conveys precise meaning Conclusion Using real-world connections to improve writing is imperative since writing is one of the most important skills any student can learn. Making connections while writing makes the process easier for the student. This will also help the student to have a better understanding of what they are writing about. By giving some advantages or freedom to the students we can improve their writing skills. This is because they would have a better connection with what they are going to write about. A good way to understand it is with the schema theory. This theory helps to comprehend more how the prior knowledge gets stored in the brain and how the future knowledge would get stored. There are many ways to connect with the students through their interest, experiences and issues. These connections result in better prewriting that includes brainstorming, freewriting, and clustering. By practicing prewriting we can avoid writing anxiety caused when they have a difficult or negative experience while writing. 12 13