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WRITING Lucy Atherton November 2018 How is Writing taught? O Daily English lesson O Opportunity to write longer pieces O Guided Reading sessions O Spellings O Independent reading O Handwriting O Speaking and Listening opportunities (drama)
Lucy Atherton November 2018
O Daily English lesson O Opportunity to write longer pieces O Guided Reading sessions O Spellings O Independent reading O Handwriting O Speaking and Listening opportunities
(drama)
We teach in genres of writing that fall mainly into these main categories:
We start with a stimulus which is always based
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Drama Text Visit/ experience Text
and we will do this by:
into a text (drama, visits, creating settings/ hot-seating characters)
sentences.
Now comes the process of reading…
writing (modelling).
texts that are similar in genre and will be suited to their ability.
text beyond the ‘reading’ of it (inference).
The writing comes very much at the end. By this point the children are well prepared to produce a piece of writing of a high level. They will have learnt new words and phrases; worked on punctuation and sentence structure and studied examples and discussed them.
O Start to end progression O Y6 immersion, learning, spellings, sentence
work, extended write, edited piece, written up and published
1)
Speaking
2)
Listening and responding
3)
Group discussion and interaction
4)
Drama
5)
Word recognition, decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)
6)
Word structure and spelling
4)
Understanding and interpreting texts
5)
Engaging and responding to texts
6)
Creating and shaping texts
7)
Text structure and organisation
8)
Sentence structure and punctuation
9)
Presentation – Publication
being creative engages children’s interest.
how important writing is in everyday life and how being able to express yourself in writing is crucial for so many things.
Start where they are at…
express it giving examples to back it up.
audience to them…
birthdays and shopping.
a holiday)
persuasion… Good to have an
improve our society.
friends.
Roald Dahl, Jaqueline Wilson, collections of short stories.
fiction.
but is just as important…
fit in when it suits the family.
have different books and magazines. Talking about what you read is just as important.
Happy tips… Great ways to help your child practice their reading…
instructions.
a film that they want to watch.
helps with not only their reading but their spellings and writing.
to support your child. Be aware of what they are learning so you can point out the spelling patterns when you hear them read.
child might end up on Countdown!