Answer to Question #212074 in English for Ntonto

Question

Discuss ways in which you as a teacher can record an experience. Based your discussion on the following:

1. Dictating the story

Answer 1

Dictation is the process of writing down what someone else has said. With young children, dictation offers a way for a parent or a teacher to record a child's thoughts or ideas when the writing demands surpass writing skills. Dictation provides a chance for an adult to model many writing behaviors including handwriting, matching sounds-to-letters to spell words, and sentence formation.

• It allows students to watch as an adult writes using many conventions of writing, such as letter formation, punctuation, spacing between words, and more.
• Teachers can model listening to a sound and writing the associated letter.
• It allows us to model that speech can be written down and read back.

Ask students to draw a picture of something of their choice; their family, a house, their pet, or another concept that the child is familiar with. Then ask the child to say a sentence or two about the picture, for example "Our dog is brown." Write the child's words on the bottom of her picture and read them back to her. As you write, model a clear sound to letter match. "We read a book about the moon. I'm going to write the word moon. What sound is at the beginning of moon? What letter makes that sound?" Encourage the child to read the sentence too.