Notes from 28th June 2016 Session:

• If it sounds to hard, DON'T!
• Think about the ROLE you are taking and what your AUDIENCE would want to see.
• Real life contexts.
• Audience, audience, audience
• Writing for enjoyment is fine (7 minutes write) as it is for fun, can incorporate learning intentions from workshops, purpose can be to share with a partner and to publish one every second week. (2 minute challenge)
• Look at the next steps. Planning & ideas.
• Focus on content first, surface features second
• Spelling needs - kids wont try big words if cant spell, so could limit ideas recorded (might generate complex vocab, but spelling stops them using it).
• Spelling needs to happen and be incorporated in independent work.

Needs:

Student needs to plan - WALT:

= draw a picture plan with labels, with phrases 

= use graphic organiser to sort sequence info [use a variety of graphic organisers] 

Student needs to develop ideas... or relevant content - WALT:

=generate ideas

=develop ideas

Student needs to develop 'revision/editing skills... - WALT:

= recraft

If your students need to proof-read... self correct with independence  - WALT:

What scaffolds will you be putting in place before they write more than 6 sentences

Adding detail - lessons and places to go are endless but the needs of the kids are all around this.

• Complex sentences - Re-read Jeff Anderson - Mechanically minded.    - sentence interruptions - openers and closers
• Word choice - precise nouns, activated nouns etc...
• Punctuation for effect

Audience Audience Audience

Context: Winter  (weekends, noticing walks, images, movies)

Audience: A school in Samoa (picking an audience who will require the detail you want the kids to include)

Format: Explain, Entertain

Model: Teacher creates a model. Analyse it to find success criteria. 2 models - a model to see - modelling the writing process

Success criteria: comes from the model and students needs 

Split screen works well.

We are adding detail ..... by including a second idea to a sentence

Acceleration:
Pre load vocabulary for next weeks journal article so they bring the knowledge and can focus on ideas instead of decoding and clarifying difficult vocab.