ELT365 · Day 198 — Process writing vs product writing
Idea — Process writing focuses on how a text is built — planning, drafting, revising. It mirrors how real writers work and raises awareness of writing…
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ELT365 · Day 195 — Reaching a decision: a task structure that works
Idea — Decision-making tasks — ‘agree on X’ — have a natural endpoint, require genuine exchange of views, and generate negotiation language without a script. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 182 — What ‘productive’ means: speaking and writing
Idea — Productive skills are speaking and writing — skills where learners generate language rather than receive it. They require learners to retrieve, organise, and produce…
ReadELT365 · Day 211 — A process-writing lesson framework
Idea — A process-writing lesson runs: lead-in → study a model → plan → draft → peer or teacher feedback → revise. The feedback-and-revise loop is…
ReadELT365 · Day 210 — Linking speaking and writing
Idea — Productive skills reinforce each other: discuss then write, or draft then present. Pairing them gives writing an audience and speaking a record, and mirrors…
ReadELT365 · Day 208 — Correction codes for writing
Idea — Marking every error overwhelms learners and does the work for them. A correction code (Sp = spelling, WO = word order, T = tense)…
ReadELT365 · Day 207 — Collaborative writing
Idea — Writing together — in pairs or groups — surfaces language choices through discussion, shares the load, and lets learners learn from each other before…
ReadELT365 · Day 206 — Freer and creative writing
Idea — Freer writing hands learners the topic and lets them shape the text themselves, building fluency and ownership. It follows controlled practice, once the form…
ReadELT365 · Day 205 — Controlled writing tasks
Idea — Controlled writing — gap-fills, sentence transformation, guided paragraphs — practises form with heavy support and a low error risk. It is the writing equivalent…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Genre shapes writing
Idea — Every genre — email, review, narrative, report — has conventions of structure, register and layout. Teaching the genre's shape before writing gives learners a…
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