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SPM 1119 Writing Workshop: Framework

Developed by Zanurin bin Mohamad Safar (Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Kulim,


2015)

Aspect

Issue

Strategy/Activity

Intro

Students
must know
their
personal
target

Strategy: Questioning and reflection


-

Aim &
Objectives of
the writing
workshop for
potential A
students

Students
clarity of the
rationales of
having to
attend the
workshop

Ask students to choose one of the


grades for SPM English 1119
Ask students to decide the
section/question that strongly
determines their A (A+, A, A-)
Highlight the importance of scoring a
good mark for essay writing

Timing
(Min.)

Total
(Minutes)

10

10

Strategy: Input from trainer


Aim:
To convince and guide potential A students to
achieve A (A+, A, A-) in SPM 1119
Objectives:
1. To highlight the traits of potential A
students in term of writing
2. To expose the assessment criteria to
potential A students
3. To expose effective strategies to help
potential A students enhance the quality
of their essays
4. To familiarize the potential A students
with the new questions for Continuous
Writing
5. To guide potential A students make
ongoing plans to improve the quality of
their written work

PART 1
TO
HIGHLIGHT
THE TRAITS
OF
POTENTIAL A
STUDENTS IN
TERM OF
WRITING

Students
Strategy: Reflection, Input from trainer
must know
their
- Describe their feeling/s when they are
weaknesses
asked to write
and
- Responding to some statements when
strengths in
they write
writing
- Gist of Part 1

PART 2
TO EXPOSE
THE
ASSESSMENT
CRITERIA TO
POTENTIAL A
STUDENTS

PART 3
TO EXPOSE
EFFECTIVE
STRATEGIES
TO HELP
POTENTIAL A
STUDENTS
ENHANCE
THE QUALITY
OF THEIR
ESSAYS

Students
must know
the
assessment
criteria for
writing so
that they
can give
what
examiners
want

Strategy: Sharing info, Input from trainer


-

Ask students to tell about the criteria to


their friends
Go through the assessment criteria
Gist of Part 2

10

10

Students
Strategy: Input from trainer and Workshop
must reduce
language
errors
1. DIVER FORMS (Different Verb Forms)
55
1.1 Explanation of DIVER Forms
1.2 Quick revision of the rules stress in
Sub-Time
1.3 Sentence construction practice/s
1.4 Stress on consistency of practice
2. PAWS (Paragraph Writing Scheme)
2.1 Explanation of the technique
2.2 Paragraph writing I love you
2.3 Presentation FOCUS ON PAST TENSE
check language accuracy
Students
must try to
get at least
2 merits in
each
paragraph

1. Task: Merit Test: Show photos of happy,


sad, surprised faces and ask ss to
describe their feeling
2. Task: Essay 1
3. Task: Essay 2
4. Task: video numanumaye

Students
must vary
their
sentence
structures

Message on varied sentence structure

Students
must arouse
and sustain
readers
interest

GS4GS
1. Message on Ommmph
2. Task: Reading and understanding a sample
story - jaguar
3. Informing students how to search for
interesting short stories

1. Input on simple, compound and complex


sentence
2. Task: Drilling on complex structure
3. Task: video - frostbyte

5
10
15

5
7
13
5
15
15
20

55

35

13
15
5
10
30
15

PART 4

1. SPM 2014 1119/1 Section B questions

TO
FAMILIARIZE
THE
POTENTIAL A
STUDENTS
WITH THE
NEW
QUESTIONS
FOR
CONTINUOUS
WRITING

2. Tips to examine questions and choose one


3. 32 sample questions and possible selflearning activities
4. Studying 4 sample essays

10
40

PART 5

1. Making personal timetable what to study?


When to study? How frequent to study?
2. Producing a personal timetable/strategy to
improve writing on personal and ongoing bases

TO GUIDE
POTENTIAL A
STUDENTS
MAKE
ONGOING
PLANS TO
IMPROVE THE
QUALITY OF
THEIR
WRITTEN
WORK

55

35

29560=4.916 hours

295

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