On this page tutors can access links and resources to help learners with writing.
- How to Help Your Learner
- Before writing, during writing, to maintain writing.
- Writing strategies
- Written conversation, free writing.
- Brainstorming or Mind-mapping
- Will help writer think of details, organize ideas, and know which information to give in text.
- Language Experience Procedure
- Use for beginning or reluctant writers.
- Revising
- Reasons for revising, while revising, points to consider.
- COPS
- Proofreading strategy.
- PARAST
- Paragraph writing strategy.
- Spelling Strategies
- List of techniques to improve spelling.
- See, Say and Spell
- Tips for memorizing spelling of new words.
- Spelling and Sensory Learning Styles
- Strategies to learn spelling according to visual, auditory and, tactile and kinesthetic learning styles
- Choosing Spelling Words
- Tips on choosing spelling words for your learner.
- A Few Useful Spelling Rules
- 100 Most Often Misspelled Words
Here are some useful links to help your learner with writing:
- Teaching Adults to Write to Communicate
- Using the learning progression; step-by-step instructions to helping your learner develop writing skills to meet their needs and goals.
- Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy
- To be used in conjunction with Teaching adults to Write and to Communicate; guide outlining steps adult learners can take to make progress in learning to listen, speak, read and write more effectively.
- Teaching Writing
- Strategies for teaching writing to adult literacy learners.