Writing Styles in P/J years - Why and What?

Young writers need an effective framework for guided writing sessions. Most of the primary grade learners know how to speak and present their thoughts. When it comes to writing, teachers feel a big different between two literacy skills of speaking and writing. Writing is a core skill to express our thoughts and feelings. It practices fine motor skills during early age and displays how good reader your student is. A good modeling for write-up is a lifeline in Primary classrooms. Students learn how to organize their thoughts and sequence them one by one for a successful essay. Writing requires vocabulary, particular set of words while exploring on a variety of topics. To develop the ideas and perception, one has to go above and beyond the background knowledge that is preserved in a corner of brain. Writing is not just fancy WANT but it is a basic requirement of daily living. Think about the future careers, hobbies or surviving jobs, almost all of them will need to settle in. Writing is one of the basis of communication and it requires constant practice to master the skill. A good writing demonstrates an ability of a good reader. Now the BIG question is what styles to emphasis in Primary and Junior grades to promote good writing skill. Here is something useful to ignite your creativity.

1. Narrative Writing: This requires a lot of story telling : ) when we share about what happens to a character or how does the story move. A successful epic tale can be of few correct sentences or it can be of a span years of time, does not matter fact or fiction. Young learners tend to write easily of this style because they are imaginative. A variety of clicks can change the entire plot and twist the fiction into an amazing tale. Even readers tend to connect best with stories and the impact stays longer than any other types of writing in narratives. Even as an adult, think about your favourite write-up and you will end into a beautiful novel might be read years back. Short stories with a few characters are the best suit for young writers. At times, use the real life experiences and instances for the beginners to built upon the confidence in writing.

2. Descriptive Writing: Describing something is like painting a picture of words in reader's mind using various vocabulary. When you are crafting vivid description, use all five senses: hearing, smell, taste, touch and sight. Make connection with different things around you and use as simile or metaphor to create that effect and deep meaning. The objective of descriptive writing is to make and feel your readers that they are there experiencing the same thing as you did. When a good writer provides enough details to describe the characteristics of people, places, things and events, s/he takes you to his/her own world. Of course you need to find source of words, enhance your sensory details and some convincing main ideas but at last all of the hard work is worth. In young classrooms, descriptive writing might require a prior work like making work-splash before writing or outlining the ideas or mind-map, however organizing, re-drafting, editing and re-reading are equally important.

3. Persuasive Writing: Today's world is all about how you prove your point right! Persuasive writing is to share your opinion and perspective in a thoughtful manner. Your job is done when you actually convince the readers of your viewpoints. For that you need to provide hard facts and evidences to prove your arguments. Instead of weaving your personal opinion or emotions, you try to convince building compelling arguments. Persuasive writing improves upon logical thinking and mastering in fact finding. When you have clear, logical ideas with enough real life facts, you have won the battle. The persuasive skill is very important for future endeavor when one has to prepare the speeches and presentations, sales writing, cover letters for job search and for the letters of recommendation.

4. Expository Writing: This style of writing is valuable because it teaches "How to..." of anything. While a student wants to teach how to make paper folds, how to create colourful, home made clay, how to bake, and so on... you name the various topics. Young kids are full of curiosity and they want to know the world around them. Give them as much exposure as you can to think about the classic and relevant questions - who, what, when, how, why? The clear thought process with some technical vocabulary gets to an awesome piece of expository writing. Additionally, teach your students to keep their personal opinions and emotions out while writing this style, it's all about the real procedure. In future, you might get many thanks from the article writers OR bloggers OR Technical content writers who learned this skill under your guidance.

5. Creative Writing: Creative writing is the most famous style when young ones start writing. It focuses on many elements like character development in a story, plot and structure of short stories, imaginative writing or story creation. The main purpose of creative writing is pleasure of reading. When you want to entertain your emotions, when you feel to port into an alien world, when you want to experience the history or when you want to feel touched by the unknown areas of world, creative writing can take you to unseen and unheard mysteries. Right pairs of rhyming words with some model directions can help primary students create unimaginative poems. It is very important that kids fall in love with prose and poetry at young age because they have a long way together until universities.

For some useful and thoughtful models of writing Grade-wise, please visit https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/resources/studentmodels