Dialogue journals are way to teach learners how to write. Not only do they help you build a relationship with your learner, but they also help highlight their strengths and improve their writing.
Dialogue journals are a useful tool in tutoring how to write. Dialogue journals help you assess your learner's writing and personalize your tutoring sessions.
Dialogue journals, which are described in greater detail in this earlier post, begin with your learner responding to a prompt (a picture or a question) on the left page of an open journal or notebook. After the student has written something down, you respond on the right side. Your response should give back what the learner gives you; in other words, match the amount of personal information your learner reveals. Your job is to illustrate how a native English speaker would talk about the topic.
Here is an example of a student with limited writing skills:
The student's writing is on the left; a possible response is on the right. This example shows how even a few words can be turned into a valuable teaching lesson.
By responding rather than editing, you teach your learner to spot and make corrections him- or herself. After you and your learner have read the responses aloud, the crucial step is for your learner to rewrite his or her response on the next page of the journal. Don't let your learner copy from the previous page, but they can flip back and forth as much as they need.
As you add to the journal each week, it becomes a personal textbook with a record of all the writing errors the student has made and is learning how to fix. You can return to previous entries to enforce the skills you've already taught.
In addition, each entry helps deepen your relationship. They should reveal increasingly more information about each other and, over time, you should start to genuinely want to know more about the information you share.
Happy Tutoring!
Natalie Howard
Washington University in St. Louis, Class of 2017
ENGLISH AT LARGE
Literacy and Learning for Life
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Dialogue journals, which are described in greater detail in this earlier post, begin with your learner responding to a prompt (a picture or a question) on the left page of an open journal or notebook. After the student has written something down, you respond on the right side. Your response should give back what the learner gives you; in other words, match the amount of personal information your learner reveals. Your job is to illustrate how a native English speaker would talk about the topic.
Here is an example of a student with limited writing skills:
The student's writing is on the left; a possible response is on the right. This example shows how even a few words can be turned into a valuable teaching lesson.
By responding rather than editing, you teach your learner to spot and make corrections him- or herself. After you and your learner have read the responses aloud, the crucial step is for your learner to rewrite his or her response on the next page of the journal. Don't let your learner copy from the previous page, but they can flip back and forth as much as they need.
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In addition, each entry helps deepen your relationship. They should reveal increasingly more information about each other and, over time, you should start to genuinely want to know more about the information you share.
Happy Tutoring!
Natalie Howard
Washington University in St. Louis, Class of 2017
ENGLISH AT LARGE
Literacy and Learning for Life
Join the conversation
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