Inspiring Writing at The Orchard

Inspiring Success

Content

- Early stages of writing

- Importance of gross and fine

motor skills

- Essential ingredients for writing

- Summary & Questions

Early Stages of Writing

- Exploring and developing

- Creative

- Fun and imaginative

- Self initiated & open ended

opportunities

- Not corrected

Essential ingredients of writing

• Communication

• Meaning, Purpose

and Motivation

• Spelling

• Grammar and

punctuation

• Handwriting

Essential Preparation and Practice

Gross Motor skills

Running

Balancing

Climbing

Riding a trike, bike

Throwing, catching, kicking a ball

All play!

These are needed before successful writing can occur.

Essential Preparation and practice

Fine Motor Skills

• Painting,

Colouring,

Drawing

• Play-dough

• Cutting

• Gluing

• Tracing

• Puzzles

• Threading

• Pegs

• Posting

• Tongs and

Tweezers

• Pouring

• Tidying!

Essential preparation and practice

Handwriting• Range of pens, pencils

• Tripod grip

• Practising name and useful words- eg

“Mum” “Dad”, “love”

• Comfort: Posture and

seating

• Role play opportunities

Phonics• 44 Phonemes

• Teaching of phonemes is organised in

“Phases” 1-6

• Children need to tune in to sound,

hear, see, play, write, use them

• Model pure sounds

• Games

• Robot talk

• Phoneme frames

High Frequency Words and Spelling

• 12 make up 25% of all reading

• Instant recognition of whole words

(common exception words)

• Games

• Spotting words in text

• Talking about words

• Using them in writing, own book making

• Look , Cover, Write, Check

• Use HFW to practise handwriting

Grammar and Punctuation

• TALK!!

• Story

• Reading

• Rehearse

orally

• Re- read

• Check for sense

• Understanding and using sentences

• Specific Teaching- Noun, verb, adjective,

adverb, etc

Summary and Questions

• Talk

• Enjoy reading good texts together- Read to your child

• Tell stories and encourage story play

• Model writing and transcribe

• Fine Motor skills

• Independence

• Writing for a purpose

• Practising phonics

• Practising high frequency words

• Support correct pencil grip and formation

• Support real writers behaviour- eg drafting and correcting

• PRAISE and Encouragement