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Collecting the works and evaluating :
Students submit their recounts to their teacher. In other meeting, the teacher returns the students’ writing with marks and correction if there are any mistakes.
Students’ achievement
E. Some Ideas for Diary Writing Program
The students must be convinced that their personal writing will remain private. If a student wishes you to read the day’s effort, s/he can place a marker in the booklet saying “Please read.” You would then read the last entry and respond with a marginal comment.
Keeping students feel free to say what one wants is an important element in writing diary activity.
Each student should have his/her own writing booklet. It may be school-
supplied or made by stapling lined sheets inside construction paper.
Teacher may frequently stimulate the flow of writing by providing a topic to write about (such as “Who Hates Me and Why”) or an incomplete beginning sentence. Just prior to the writing period teacher mayt read the students a poem or short story to which they can respond.
Additional motivation for some, once a week, can be to allow groups of three to assemble during diary writing to share their personal thoughts by reading a day’s effort to the group and letting the group respond.
Welcome and encourage students to share a writing effort with the entire class. (If you are writing, too, you may wish to set such an example.) Some diary-writing entries could be placed in a class or school publication-- with the permission of the author.
One thing teacher must avoid is to take away diary writing for a disciplinary reason or to have it sporadically.
CONCLUSIONS
Writing is one important skill that takes time to be mastered. Many students get trouble to start writing, to construct their ideas and have an unpleasant experience in writing. It is one of teacher’s duties to make their students write. Diary writing can be an enjoyable activity to make the students write because in this activity the students will feel free to write without deep thinking about ideas to be written, they can express own feeling by writing on a diary. In this case, writing a diary can help students to write their recount text, by making the diary that they write day by day as the draft for their final recount. at the same time, diary writing also can be a bridge for a good relationship and communication between teacher and student. When a teacher give some suggestion or responds on students diary writing , it may be a kind of teachers’ attention on their students problem and life. Here, a good impression of a teacher to a students may be created.
But however, writing on a diary may take along time to be conducted.
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