Stage 1 guidelines for writing: Grammar

Here is a grammar objective for Stage 1 for writing:

To represent in writing the same kinds of grammatical structures you can read

Here are some grammar strategies for Stage 1 guidelines for writing:

• Practice

  Write out what you can say and show it to a language associate.

• Selective attention

  Isolate one structure at a time, using drill techniques.

• Memory

  Use color-coding, pictures, or grouping strategies to help you remember significant grammatical categories such as gender or noun classes.

Here are some grammar techniques for Stage 1 guidelines for writing:

• Dictation
• The Single Sentence Pattern Practice technique
• The Structure Contrast Drill technique
• The System Drill technique
• The Write and Rewrite technique

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for writing: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 1: Writing modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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