Year 3 and 4

Parents’ English Workshop Autumn 2014

Today’s Workshop

• To give you an overview of the English Curriculum

• To share with you how English is taught at St Joseph’s

• To develop your understanding of writing vocabulary

• To give you ideas for supporting your child’s reading and writing development at home.

Achievement

• At St Joseph’s we have and achieve high standards

• Our students make accelerated progress

• For the second year running, St Joseph’s is in the top 1% of schools nationally for our value added score.

New Curriculum

• New National Curriculum was introduced this school year

• Expectations have been raised

• We trialled parts of the new Curriculum throughout the summer term of the last school year

• Changes to the use of levels to assess students.

Key Stage 2

• In KS2, the students learn to change the way they speak and write to suit different situations, purposes and audiences.

• They plan, compose and edit their writing to improve their work

• They develop longer fiction and non-fiction writing through extended writing across different subject areas

• They read in a range of contexts across all subject areas.

Government Guidelines

The curriculum outlines these areas for

the teaching of writing:

• Planning and drafting

• Composition • Punctuation

• Spelling • Handwriting and presentation

What do these terms mean to you?

Planning and drafting

- write notes, develop ideas, change ideas, proofread, discuss and evaluate their own and other’s writing.

Composition

– the writing process; developing sentences; using ‘wow words’ or ambitious vocabulary; using different sentence openers and connectives; showing the features of the text.

The types of texts students write in Year 3 and Year 4

Fiction

Non-Fiction stories plays poems

diary entries letters

recounts

reports recounts

explanations instructions persuasive arguments

The Key Skills

Words

Sentences

Texts

VCOP

Vocabulary

Connectives

Openers

Punctuation

Words/Vocabulary

Jack tidied his room.

In this sentence can you name the

nouns?

verb?

Vocabulary

Jack tidied his room.

noun – who/what

Vocabulary

Jack tidied his room.

verb – doing word / action

Vocabulary

Jack carefully tidied his room.

adverb – describes the verb

Vocabulary

Jack carefully tidied his messy room.

adjective– describing word

Vocabulary

nouns

verbs

adjectives

adverbs

Vocabulary

Words to sentences

Building interesting sentences:

- different sentence starters

- connectives

- vary the length and structure

- punctuation

Sentences Connectives

Sentences

Add a connective:

Jack carefully tidied his room because he had lost

the tv remote.

Sentences Sentence starters:

Sentences

Sentence starters:

Without even being asked, Jack carefully tidied his

room.

Sentences

Vary the length:

Jack carefully tidied his room. His mother nearly fainted in shock.

Jack carefully tidied his room

because his mother had discovered a nest of vicious rats were living in

his underwear drawer.

Sentences

Punctuation

Sentences

Punctuation:

Jack carefully tidied his room, as he was eager to keep his parents happy.

Texts

- Features of different text types

- Paragraphs

- Author’s techniques and language styles

Writing Assessment

National Averages

End Year 3

2A/3C

End Year 4

3B

End Year 5

3A/4C

End Year 6

4B

Marking

At St Joseph’s we use these marking codes:

Sp

You have mis-spelt a word

P You have missed a

punctuation mark

G Check your grammar.

Does it make sense?

GPQ Green Pen Question –

Answer the question with a green pen

Next Steps – Read these carefully.

Feedback

• We have a whole school marking policy

which ensure children receive daily feedback and opportunities to extend their learning

• Every lesson has a clear LO and success criteria which give students clear steps to achieve the outcome

• Children respond to marking by answering GPQs and understanding the next steps in their learning.

Handwriting

At St Joseph’s we develop children’s

handwriting joins with a ªc[u[rã[i[¹Ö ¡]c[ri[p[t ¡[t[Ò¯e.

All letters, except capitals, ¡[t]a[Œt í›om ¶t[«e

¶l[i[±e. Capital letters do not join.

Letters ó ªü ¶h ¶þ have a ‘tail loop’

Handwriting

In your English pack, you have a copy of

the St Joseph handwriting letters.

ªa ¶b ªc ªd â ó ªü ¶h ¶i ¶ý ¶„ ¶l ¶m

¶n ª‹ ¶p ªq ¶r ¡ ¶t ¶u ¶v ¶w ¶ˆ ¶þ ¶z

How does your own handwriting compare?

Reading Strategies

How you can help!

The success of children’s reading and writing is based on

• a rich talking environment

• experience of many stories that have been read to them

• being able to join in with stories and add their own ideas

• children being engaged in a range of speaking a listening activities

• Reading opportunities in any situation

How you can help!

• Enjoy books!

• Tell them stories! Read together. Listen to them read.

• Visit the library

• Listen to audio books; discuss interesting television shows and documentaries

• Encourage your child to retell their stories to you

• Ask your child their opinion on important real-world issues.

How you can help!

• Experience the world – visit your free, local, world-class museums and talk about everything you see.

• Tell jokes!

• Make up riddles and poems

• Find real writing opportunities that engage your child – letters, emails, invitations, shopping lists, microwave instructions, oven instructions.

• Celebrate the written word!

Thank you for attending our

Parents’ English Workshop