Writingfun.com is a website with a text organizer program for writing different types of texts in an easy way. Texts such as information reports, essays, or stories containing genres like narration,description, exposition, persuasion, information, discussion, and response. This website includes instructions which purposes are guiding the users by following the writing steps; pre-writing, writing, revision, editing and publishing. This Internet page is also an instrument for 4 to 8 graders at school and their teachers because of the continuous assistance with simple and illustrative examples for the composition. Its creator, Jenny Eather, is an expert in internal and external communication and has focused on interactive websites, including elements of communication, corporate training, media management, social media and websites with writing and editing instruments for teaching.
This site’s objectives are among others, help users understand how to choose appropriate words for making a sentence, the function of the different words, the correct punctuation; build and develop the main idea of a paragraph and increase and enhance vocabulary. In summary, this tool emphasizes on acquiring basic skills of the writing process.
Specific Features and instructions
Writingfun.com is compatible with Microsoft Word; it has several tools for you to use, such as grammar remarks, publishing options and download sample texts.
For using the text organizer program, first you choose the type of text. After, the program arises questions to guide the text construction so the users can develop the topic, the main ideas and the purpose. The final text is built with the next steps:
1. Look the text parts: Introduction, development and conclusion.
2. If you don´t know how to do it, see an example.
3. Follow the guide questions in each part of your text and take into account the TIPS.
4. Answer the question of each part of the text.
Advantages and recommendations for learners and teachers
To sum up, writingfun.com is an excellent academic website that offers a text organizer, which is an appropriate and brilliant tool for teachers and an useful assistant for students in their writing process.
This page is very beneficial for all children from 8 to 13 years because they can use writingfun.com to do their assignments, and it can be used by parents or teachers to help their children at home or at school. Besides, this website makes the writing process easier for children, and helps them to understand the main concepts of the writing process of different texts depending of their necessities. Using this website children's experience is clearer, more illustrated and they have a more effective learning. However, when people use this website, they must take into account that each child has a different writing level and parents must search an appropriated tool for their necessities.
Teaching and Learning tool
Teachers can use this tool as supporting material for their instruction on how to write different texts. Moreover, teachers can benefit from the variety of grammar support that the website offers; like the use of capital letters, correct punctuation, appropriate sequencing, vocabulary acquisition strategies and the writing of topic sentences and main ideas while developing an interactive education.
Finally, the best feature of this program is that children can find the steps to do their writing with the program assistance, which makes easier for them to do their homework. This website also allows learners to observe several examples related to grammar aspects so the children can put into practice that knowledge when writing their assignments.
Testimonials
Many people that have used writingfun.com give very good comments about this site. Thus, they agree on saying that writingfun.com is an excellent tool because it has many options of writing and explanations about grammar' topics. It’s a very interesting tool to use as class material and an interactive website for children and parents to learn. Other comments in the web say that the text organizer of writingfun.com gives examples showing text structures that give the children the possibility of developing skills in a more independent way. We had the opportunity of checking the usefulness of this website, and we think it gives many options for the writing learning and teaching process.
Sources
http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2010/3/1/jenny-eathers-writing-fun-brilliant-text-teaching-tool.html
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Cindy Andrea Bernal Toro
Ana María Viana
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