Teaching Writing: Strategies and Resources
This resource features a collection of instructional strategies that can be used to support the development of writing for adult foundational learners. Just getting started with Teaching Writing? Start here. If you are already familiar, you might start with the writing stages.
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These instructional strategies have been organized into the four stages of the writing process: prewriting, drafting and organizing, feedback, and revisions. Each stage of writing is accompanied by its own distinct colour and icon.
Strategies are adaptable for different skill levels:
- For emerging writers or less formal instruction and activities: Writing for Everyday Purposes.
- For more advanced writers, look for the Add Complexity suggestions within each strategy.
- Looking for writing practice activities? In addition to explicit instruction on how to write, writing practice will help improve writing skills.
Prewriting
Prewriting is actually about thinking—we think through ideas before we write.
Drafting & Organizing
Drafting is the free form of writing—just getting ideas down. Organizing is how we attempt to structure those ideas.
Feedback
Feedback is how we reflect on our writing, either on our own or with someone else, and decide on changes.
Revisions
Revisions are the refinements and changes we make to create our final copy.