WRITING SKILL

Members :
Siti Fadilah bt Omzaidi
Wan Nur Hazimah bt Wan Husin
Nasyratul Fathiah bt Mohd Farid
 What is writing?

Writing is a mean of
communication using visible
signs or graphic symbols.
Stages in writing
Writing
readiness
Mature
writing

Early
writing

Developme
ntal writing
 1. Writing readiness
• Development of psychomotor skills.

• Develop the child’s knowledge of English.

• Develop ability to discriminate shapes, and

distinguish between letters.
e.g : letter of b, p, d, q.
• Develop the child’s interest in wanting to write
in English.

• Increase the ability to differentiate print and

pictures.

• Develop visual memory for shapes so that

they remember the spelling of words.
• Develop child’s larges muscles and fine
muscles to control his writing implement.
 2. Early writing
• Teach pupils the mechanics and conventions
necessary for effective communicative writing.

• These includes handwriting, spelling,

punctuation and paragraphic.

• Provide meaningful contexts for learning the

mechanics of writing.
• Use people own oral compositions for giving
them in sights into writing.

• Develop pupils’ natural curiosity and thinking

skills.
 3. Developmental writing
• Correct spelling is important in effective
written communication.

• Steps in teaching spelling :

i) Teaching the relationship between
common phonemes (sounds) and graphemes
(letter combination).
ii) Teaching common words for day to day
writing.

iii) Develop pupils visual memory for shapes of

words.

iv) Develop relevant dictionary skills.

v) Help pupils to remember common but

troublesome words (mnemonics).