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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)

Progression Through Teaching

We teach in genres of writing that fall mainly

into these main categories:

• Narrative

• Poetry

• Non-fiction

How do we start?

We start with a stimulus which is always based

on a high quality text:

• A book (fiction or non-fiction)

• Poem

• An excerpt from a book

• Literacy areas are based on genre/ text

O Literacy areas

Year 6 – The Giant’s Necklace and

other stories by Michael Morpurgo

Literacy areas

Y5 – George’s Marvellous Medicine

Literacy areas

Year 4 – Greek Myths

Literacy areas

Year 3 – Flat Stanley

Immersion into a text

Drama

TextVisit/

experience

Text

Getting into it!!

• We prepare the children before they write

and we will do this by:

• Engaging the children through an immersion

into a text (drama, visits, creating settings/

hot-seating characters)

• Lots of talk for writing/ group/ paired work

• Collecting words/ phrases and turning them

sentences.

Then what?

Now comes the process of reading…

• Reading a text that will support their

writing (modelling).

• In guided reading children will read

texts that are similar in genre and will

be suited to their ability.

• Developing an understanding of the

text beyond the ‘reading’ of it

(inference).

Where’s the writing?

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.

Handout

O Start to end progression

O Y6 immersion, learning, spellings, sentence

work, extended write, edited piece, written

up and published

Areas our children cover

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

Writing as a Creative Process

• This is a vital part of learning to write, as

being creative engages children’s interest.

• Making writing helps children to understand

how important writing is in everyday life and

how being able to express yourself in writing

is crucial for so many things.

Helping your children at home….

Talk isn’t cheap…It’s free!!

Start where they are at…

• What are they interested in? Exploit it!

• Talk to them about it…

• Encourage them to have an opinion and

express it giving examples to back it up.

• Make sure you stay interested be a good

audience to them…

Writing… not easy! My tip is make it real…

• Thank you letters

• Lists: Christmas,

birthdays and

shopping.

• Post cards on holiday

• Diary (maybe just for

a holiday)

Having an opinion…

• Letters of

persuasion…

Good to have an

opinion and use it to

improve our society.

Making it real!

• Emails to relatives or

friends.

Reading…

• Reading books:

• Fiction: Mr Gum,

Roald Dahl,

Jaqueline Wilson,

collections of short

stories.

• Michael Morpurgo

Non-fiction:

• Just as important as

fiction.

• Tends to be forgotten

but is just as

important…

Helping my child read…

• It’s not a chore if you

fit in when it suits

the family.

• If you get bored then

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…

• Reading recipes and instructions.

• Read the web site of a film that they want to watch.

• A little every day helps with not only their reading but their spellings and writing.

Spelling…

• Spellings – important

to support your child.

Be aware of what they

are learning so you can

point out the spelling

patterns when you

hear them read.

• You never know your

child might end up on

Countdown!