Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v18i4.2016
Teaching Writing Skills - How to Start Writing a Text
Dušanka Popović
; Department for Montenegrin Language and South Slavic Literature, Faculty of Philology, University of Montenegro
Tatjana Novović
; Department for Preschool Education, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro
Abstract
This paper presents and analyzes parts of the research on teaching writing skills in elementary school relating to the difficulties that pupils encounter when creating a text and recommends actions to overcome the observed difficulties. As the highest percentage of pupils pointed out the problem of how to start the writing process and how to choose the topics about which to write, and being that these two issues are directly related, we analyze and suggest an individualized approach to choosing the topic and its title. This approach was tested during the implementation of the project How to help pupils to successfully produce oral and written, artistic and non-artistic texts, in which pupils wrote throughout a process based on a number of stages and each individual had the time he/she needed to create a text, which was correct in terms of content and language, and prepared in accordance with the title he/she has chosen him/herself. The process itself is mentioned or described in the methodology and theories of literacy of domestic and foreign production, but so far the authors have not presented its application in practice and its concrete results. All suggestions and conclusions which are given here, together with the provided theoretical foundations, are based on practical experience.
Keywords
individualized approach; topic; topic title; written text; writing
Hrčak ID:
172317
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2016.
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