Stage 2: Shared Writing Experiences

As for writing, pupils are purposefully scaffolded through a series of structured tasks before they attempt to write independently. Pupils will also go through a "language experience" activity which provides the teacher and the pupils a common topic to talk and write about. Such "language experience" activity can include making sandwiches in class or having a slumber party in class!

Pupils will then work collaboratively as a class to do a piece of class writing (based on the "language experience" activity) with the teacher as the scribe. When the teacher manages to elicit the targeted structures from the pupils, the latter will then be assigned a similar topic for the pupils to work on in small groups. Pupils will present their group writing to their classmates upon completion. Last but not least, pupils attempt to do their own individual writing based on the same topic though with a different slant to it.