Digital Literacy-

Expressive Writing

L.O. Teach the key features of expressive writing and use the Ultranet to blog

expressive writing activities over the year.

SMR Peninsula Sub Region Ultranet Coaches; Jonathan Hall, Tanya Moran & Stephen Daly

Expressive Writing/Blogging

Discuss and teach key features of expressive writing using a personal voice as a whole class.

Students could then use expressive writing over the year using the blog application on their ‘eXpress’ page.

See the following slides on instructions on how students can do this.

Log onto the Ultranet and go to the ‘eXpress’ page within the eXpress Space.

1. Click on ‘Add Blog Entry’

2. Add Title3. Add Content

4. Click on ‘Publish’

Reminder that only the student and teacher will be able to view

these blogs.

Suggested Resources• Expressive Writing. Grand Rapids, MI: McGraw-Hill.• Reasons for Writing. Oxford: Ginn.• Story Strips. NES London: Hodder-Arnold.• The Paragraph Book series. Cambridge, MA: Educators Publishing Service.• When They Can’t Write (2nd Ed.) - Morgan, C. G. (2001) (manual plus 2 photocopiable practice books) Timonium, MD: York

Press. • Write Creatively. Nuneaton, UK: Prim-Ed Publishers. • Write on Themes. Leeds: AMS Educational• Writers at Work. Grand Rapids, MI: McGraw-Hill.• Writing Frames - Lewis and Wray. University of Reading: Reading and Language Information Centre• www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/pshe/files/belongingteachersguide.pdf • http://www.suite101.com/content/teaching-expressive-writing-in-the-primary-grades-using-the-backw-a300310• http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-4/writing.htm