Writing
Writing - Implementation
In order to build vocabulary and enable our children to write effectively and coherently, we teach writing using 'The Write Stuff' approach by Jane Considine. This approach is used from Reception through to Year 6 and allows children to apply basic skills, vocabulary and grammar knowledge to write effective sentences, which are full of impact and keep the reader interested. 'The Write Stuff' brings clarity to the mechanics of teaching writing. It is introduced though the 'Writing Rainbow', using the three zones of writing: Fantastics, Grammaristics and Boomtastics which contain 27 lenses.
As part of the teaching sequence, teachers plan experience days, sentence stacking lessons and independent writing sequences. Experience days immerse children in experiences linked to their writing and drench them in vocabulary linked to the lenses in 'The Writing Rainbow'. From the experience days, children take part in the sentence stacking lessons. Sentence stacking lessons include effective demonstration writing from the teacher and the writing of three high-quality sentences with focuses on lenses of the rainbow. Children are also given the opportunity to 'Deepen The Moment' and add more to their writing using a lens of their choice. Independent writing sequences give children the opportunity to showcase everything they've learnt in their experience days and sentence stacking lessons.
Over their time at Hawridge & Cholesbury CE School, children will write a range of genres focused on high-quality texts. The chosen texts and genres cover a wide range of themes, including cultural, social and physical diversity. All fiction texts are explored through a central character, where the children put themselves in their position and focus on the highs and lows of story events and discuss the range of emotions from plot point to plot point.
Handwriting
We use Read Write Inc Handwriting. For further details see our Scheme of Work and Parents guide to letter formation. (attachments)
Key Documents For Implementation
To support our planning and to ensure that our children develop and progress through basic skills, grammar and punctuation we have created a 'Writing Progression' document. This document progresses from Reception to Year 6 and supports fiction and non-fiction writing elements.
All year groups have a yearly overview, which include both Fiction and Non-Fiction texts for Writing. The texts chosen have been carefully considered to ensure children have access to a rich and diverse reading diet. The yearly overviews ensure that children encounter a wide range of text types throughout their school career and have the opportunity to build on prior learning within their current year group and year on year.
See Writing Progression documents below:
Writing - Impact
Children will progress through and eventually leave Hawridge and Cholesbury CE School being able to;
- Write for a range of purposes including diary entries, persuasion, and narrative to name a few.
- Use their vast knowledge vocabulary to excite, inform or entertain the reader.
- Understand a range of punctuation and the effect it can have on the reader in both writing and reading.
- Understand the various sentence types that can be used to support different genres.
- Spell using their phonetic knowledge and apply known spelling rules.
- Speak clearly, fluently and coherently
- Listen attentively with understanding, pleasure and empathy and contribute to group discussions effectively.
Support Learning at Home
All year groups have a yearly overview, which include both Fiction and Non-Fiction texts for Writing. The texts chosen have been carefully considered to ensure children have access to a rich and diverse reading diet. The yearly overviews ensure that children encounter a wide range of text types throughout their school career and have the opportunity to build on prior learning within their current year group and year on year.
See documents below:
For more information on how to support your child at home, Oxford Owl offers some helpful tips for parents and useful activities for children. Click here for more information.
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