Write an e-mail in about 100-125 words to a home for the visually impaired, offering to read aloud to the students there. Mention the date and day convenient for you, and what you would like to read out to them. Find out what other support the home might need.
Answers
Answer:
I created this list of Journal topics some years ago, and it has proved a good list of topics for free-writing. have used it with native speakers in high school as well as with ESL students on varying levels. (For COM, I suggest the lower levels - have taught 63 and 73 and used it in both.)
I usually have students write for 12 minutes in class, double-spacing their work and writing on one side of the page, preferably in ink. They are supposed to write without regard for "correct" grammar or spelling, and without referring to a dictionary, to build fluency.
If they don't complete two pages on their chosen topic, they are supposed to finish it at home, hopefully soon after class. When they have completed five writings, they turn in their journals, stapling their entries in order.
I read and comment, and do grade them, but leniently, because they have not been asked to polish their work. I usually have a "read-around", after I have returned their entries, where students select one of their preferred entries to read to the entire class as we sit in a circle.
Sometimes ask students to select an entry to develop into an essay of four to five paragraphs. This is a good exercise for them. In the example I attach, a student chose to write all her entries for one assignment on the same topic of "A Childhood Memory." As you can see, she had material which was very significant to her, probably providing explanation of journal assignments as a catharsis, as writing can do! - Ruth Britton