1. Writing information evening!
Tuesday 25th November 2014
Writing information evening!

2. See themselves as writers
Our Aims:
Children who are:
excited
Confident
Independent
Thirst…
See themselves as writers

4. Becoming readers and writers
Before children can learn to read and write they need to develop their understanding of the English language. For all of us this happens through talk.
Through talk we learn new vocabulary and the knowledge of how to structure sentences.
In school we encourage the children to talk in a variety of situations.

5. What does a good writer look like?
Writing that makes sense Sustains the interest of the reader Thinks out of the box (imagination) Spells common words correctly Using a range of punctuation Displays a broad vocabulary- (Beyond their years) Describes people, places and things Extends sentences

6. Its not easy is it!!! clip
At St. Anne's in years 2 and 3 the children are developing all of these skills.
Our next step is to
A) encourage less enthusiastic writers
B)Give them the tools to be a good writer.
C) Develop a thirst for writing.

7. This can be inspired by music or pictures.
Creative Writing
This can be inspired by music or pictures.

9. Attention grabbing beginnings.
“Grab your reader by the throat on first line,
drag them through the story...
...and don’t let go until the last full stop!”

10. Playing with the sequence of a story
Go to park
Play on swings
Get chased by a poodle
Dog rips seat out of trousers
Run home
Tell mum a crazed Alsatian nearly tore you limb from limb.
"I screamed as the deadly teeth snapped
within an inch of my bottom!"
"I slammed the front door and collapsed in the hallway, holding my tattered trousers in my hand, just glad to be alive!"
"It was huge, mum, honestly. A monster!
I had to fend it off with sticks!"

11. Challenge- how to enthuse…..
The boring parts of writing……
Challenge- how to enthuse…..

12. VCOP

13. Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation

14. The cat went along the wall.
Ban Boring Sentences
The cat went along the wall.
We help the children develop their sentences by using VCOP.

15. Let’s get the VCOP superheroes to work on saving us from the boredom of boring sentences!

16. The cat went along the wall.
Violet vocab adds adjectives
to describe and changes dull
words for interesting
alternatives!
The fluffy ginger cat prowled
along the red brick wall.

17. The fluffy ginger cat prowled along the red brick wall.
Captain Connective
adds more detail or action to the sentence.
The fluffy ginger cat prowled along the red brick wall because he was spying on a juicy bird.

18. The fluffy ginger cat prowled along the red brick wall because he was spying on a juicy bird.
The Incredible Opener changes the beginning of the sentence to grab your reader’s attention!
Whilst licking his lips, the fluffy ginger cat prowled along the red brick wall because he was spying on a juicy bird.

19. Whilst licking his lips, the fluffy ginger cat prowled along the red brick wall because he was spying on a juicy bird.
Dr Punctuation makes an impact
using different punctuation.
Whilst licking his lips, the fluffy ginger cat (who had sharp teeth) prowled along the red brick wall because he was spying on a juicy bird!

20. The cat went along the wall.
We went from:
The cat went along the wall.
To:
Whilst licking his lips, the fluffy ginger cat (who had sharp teeth) prowled along the red brick wall because he was spying on a juicy bird!
Using VCOP!
What a wonderful way to improve our writing!

21. See sheets of alternatives.
VOCABULARY
Learning to
use interesting and
ambitious vocabulary.
See sheets of alternatives.

22. Violet Vocab V
Violet has the power to help people really see how things look.
She holds the secret of how characters and places really feel.
Although words for sights and sounds are her favourite weapons she knows the importance of taste, touch and smell too.
Violet knows how to pick just the right nouns or verbs to give writing real power over a reader.
She uses adjectives and adverbs to hypnotise people in to really seeing and feeling a piece of writing.

23. Harry gave Hermoine a thunderous glare as he stalked haughtily past her.
The ball whizzed past his head at a staggering speed.
The house was old and dilapidated and Sophie approached it cautiously.
The horse stood majestically in the luscious green field.

24. use different ways to join our sentences together.
CONNECTIVES
Learning to
use different ways to join
our sentences together.

25. The girl had a pet rabbit and the boy had a pet dog.
Because he ate too many sweets Bart was sick.
I like to play football but I don’t like to play cricket.

26. use different ways to open
OPENERS
Learning to
use different ways to open
our sentences.

27. Openers Ways to Start Example
“When” starter Last night…. (time connectives)
“How” starter Carefully, he crept …..
“Where” starter Across the road….
Name starter Bill wandered ….
Simile Like an eel …..
Adjective starter Tall trees towered overhead ….
“-ed” verbs Excited, Joanna ran …..
“-ing” verbs Running quickly, Tim felt …..

28. use different punctuation in
Learning to
use different punctuation in
our sentences.

29. Writing
What can you do to help?
Encourage and praise all effort when writing
When talking with your child introduce new vocabulary and use it within context.
Read stories to your child and explain new words which you come across,
For children who are developing their writing style:
Once the children can write words we then focus on developing the vocabulary, introducing different connectives and openers and how to use punctuation. This is called VCOP.

30. We cut a big slice out of the cake and gave it a chocolate mouth.
messy
big slice
plate
party
like mud
chocolate cake
diet
scoff
tasty
a chocolate hill
mouth
scrumptious
Auntie Susan
fridge
We cut a big slice out of the cake and gave it a chocolate mouth.
Auntie Susan scoffed all the cake at my party and she got really messy.
The scrumptious chocolate cake sat on the plate at the back of the fridge like a great muddy mountain.

31. Here’s what the inside of a REAL author’s head looks like...
writing W
reading R

32. A final word
No matter who we are meant to be answerable to....

33. Ultimately we are ONLY accountable to our children!

34. Enthusiasm encouragement and exposure is needed.
Finally………………
Enthusiasm encouragement and exposure is needed.
That’s all!!
Thank you xx