Writing Fluency

Instruction: how to write quickly, how to write without unnecessary pauses

  • Include a 5-minute free-writing activity every week (or in most of weeks)
  • Before or after the 5-min writing, I show one strategy to write more quickly
  • to draw students’ attention
  • Give the same or similar topics
  • to familiarize themselves with the topic 

Student Strategy

A.Pre-Writing (30 seconds)

  1. Brainstorm using a spider map or listing
  2. Brainstorm with peers

B.While-Writing (4minutes)

  1. Focus on speed (e.g., ignore typos and errors)
  2. Use plain English
  3. Describe something when you don’t know the exact word.
  4. Learn from someone’s writing

C.Post-Writing (1minute)

  1. Use vocabulary tools (e.g., Longman English dictionary, Just the Word, WordHippo, DMM 英会話 なんてyou know?)
  2. Reflection on their performance 
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