The posittion in this book is that teachers have the responsibility to teach children how to write, and part of that resposibility is teaching children the strategies and skills that capable writer use(Dudley- Maring & Dippo, 1991 - tompkins)
Teachers have the responsibility to teach the students who show a lack of skill and strategies in their writing. the illustration of Ms. Boland showed us clearly how theachers' attitude should be toward the students who are lacking in writing. By her writing instuction, her students who were used to be novice writers started to use the strategies and skills that capable writers use .
So It is crucial to teach students both the writing strategies and skills effectively.
At every grade level, teachers must incorporate strategy instruction. Direct instruction in targeted at identified weaknesses evident in student writing in order to improve writing performance.(Hillocks, 1986- Graham 36p)
Balanced instruction ensures that the texts students compose have sentneces that are grammatically correct as well as unified around a topic or central emotion.(collins 1997)
As what Min Gyu Kim said that " To be good at writing, people should learn strategies and important skills when trying to come up with a composition or writing"
Teacher should teach both strategies and skills in balanced way and studnets should also learn the writing strategies and skills in same way.
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