Improving students’ writing

skill by using Write Around

Strategy
Dea Syafira Ananda
 Background
Students want to grasp writing ability because they can talk and specific their idea
well in order that the teacher will recognize effortlessly what those students write.
Moreover, many troubles have been discovered in teaching and mastering writing,
loss of vocabulary, grammatical mistakes, spelling mistakes etc.

The use of appropriate strategies is considered as one of the powerful methods to

enhance students’ ability in writing recount text. One of the cooperative learning
model considered appropriate is called Write Around. Baliya (2013:299) stated that
the purpose of a write around is “to engage students to share their opinions or
debate things”.
 Literature Review
Writing is the process of coming up with ideas, considering how to express them, and
organizing them into sentences and paragraphs with the intention of indirectly
communicating with other people. Students learn to convey their thoughts through
language in writing.

Write around strategy is a cooperative learning technique that enables students to write and
share their ideas by making marks on paper that represent letters or numbers with a pen or
pencil after organizing their thoughts by writing to others nearby.
Procedures of using Write Around Strategy in
classroom
●First, small groups are formed (e.g., 3-4 students).
●Teacher poses the question for groups to respond to.
●The first student in each group is given 30 seconds to write a response.
●After responding, the paper gets passed to the next group member who is given 30 seconds
to read the response, plus an additional 30 seconds to add, clarify, or expand any information
as they respond.
●This process repeats until each student in the group has contributed.
●Groups have several minutes to verbally continue their discussions, before participating in
a whole-class share.
 Conclusion
From many research that had been conducted, we can conclude that Write-around is
appropriate strategy in teaching writing. The strategy was started with a sentence
starter and continued by the students in a group by passing the sentence. Student write
to the next student. After all students have done writing their sentences by their own
opinions, teacher should give time for the students to write conclusion in their group.
It is interesting because students will memorize what they should write after the first
sentence. The steps of write-around strategy had been done in each cycle.
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