2. Aims of today: To provide you with support to help your child with their writing at home. To show you how you can help your child to improve their writing. To give you some ideas in how to get your child to write at home.

3. 4 key things to think about when writing. V ocabulary C onnectives O peners P unctuation

4. Activity 1: Choose a picture and write it down. E.g. The mouse.

5. Now let’s make it more interesting: Add an adjective E.g. The brown mouse. Or make it a 2A sentence with 2 adjectives E.g. The furry brown mouse.

6. Now let’s make it even more interesting: Add an another adjective (A list sentence) E.g. The little, furry, brown mouse. *don’t forget the commas

7. Now let’s make it really interesting: Turn it into a 4A sentence The little, furry mouse was on the large, red bus.

8. Make the adjectives interesting. Use a variety of different adjectives. Good opportunity to introduce children to new vocabulary and ambitious words.

9. Openers Temporal connectives : (Time connectives) First, Then, Next, Later, Finally, Just at that moment ‘ly’ and ‘ing’ openers (adverb, verb openers) Suddenly, Walking, Jumping, Quickly walking, Nervously waiting, Story Openers Once upon a time, Long, long ago

10. Connectives Joining 2 sentences together. ‘and’ We went to the sweet shop and we bought some chocolate. BOYS sentences But, yet, or, so We were going to go to the park but it started to rain. We could play football or we could play on the swings. It started to rain so we came inside.

11. Punctuation

12. Activity 2: Make a great sentence including VCOP. OpenerVocabularyConnective Punctuation First Next Just at that moment Suddenly Quickly running Excitedly skipping enormous gigantic impeccable magnificent anxious gorgeous and but/yet or so because. ?, ! “

13. How can I get my child to write at home? Postcards Letters (from you, family, characters – write a reply) Text messages Emails Stories Recounts Poems Songs/raps Invitations/cards

14. Other tips and ideas Talk Talk Talk – If a child can speak a sentence, then they can write it. Use ideas from the children’s experience to help them in their writing.