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How to Use This Book
This book is designed to support the guided writing approach to teaching writing
in the classroom. Each unit in
Guided Writing Plus 3
is divided into nine activity sets.
These activity sets work together to build skills that enable students to produce
creative, well-written, and well-organized passages.
Writing Focus
Each unit focuses on a specific writing skill to
strengthen students’ writing proficiency and build
their English language skills.
A
na
l
y
sis
This section provides comprehension questions
to check students’ understanding of the passage.
Here, a graphic organizer is used to help the
students deconstruct the passage. Answers from the
questions above are used to complete the organizer.
Pattern
Here, students warm up by arranging words
and phrases in the graphic organizer. This
activity is designed to help student organize
information and brainstorm vocabulary
related to the unit’s focus.
W
ord
Wa
ll
This exercise introduces additional
vocabulary based on the unit’s theme.
Students group words into the appropriate
categories as a way to analyze and gain a
better understanding of the vocabulary.
M
ode
l
A passage on the unit’s theme is provided
in which the unit’s writing strategy is utilized.
Students should follow the directions to
identify characteristics of the writing focus.
This exercise not only allows the students
to see these techniques used in practice,
but also provides a model paragraph for
them to follow when writing their own
passages.
D
iscussion
This is an exercise used to build up basic
communicative language skills on the
unit’s topic. Students ask and answer
questions based on the unit’s theme.
Here students can arrange the details of
the discussion with their partners. This
allows them to visualize their ideas.
