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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!
