Written Language - Writing
Conceptual understandings
- Stories that people want to read are built around themes to which they can make connections.
- Effective stories have a purpose and structure that help to make the author’s intention clear.
- Synthesizing ideas enables us to build on what we know, reflect on different perspectives, and express new ideas.
- Knowing what we aim to achieve helps us to plan and develop different forms of writing.
- Through the process of planning, drafting, editing and revising, our writing improves over time.
Learning Outcomes:
Related Ziptales Materials:
Learners:
- write independently and with confidence, showing the development of their own voice and style
Use Task 3 from the Specialised English Lessons Reading Module Identifying Narrative Voice and Aladdin Worksheet 2 & King Arthur Worksheet 1 (Graphic Classics) to provide opportunities for learners to develop their own voice and style.
- write using a range of text types in order to communicate effectively, for example, narrative, instructional, persuasive
Study the structures and features of different text types using the Specialised English Lessons Writing Module What Are the Shapes of Texts?
Use the Write Time worksheets (via the blue icon link in Extending Literacy) to provide opportunities for learners to write arguments, essays, recounts, instructions, information and narratives.
- adapt writing according to the audience and demonstrate the ability to engage and sustain the interest of the reader
Increase awareness of how to engage and sustain a reader’s interest by studying the Write Time digital documentary How to Write a Story.
- use appropriate paragraphing to organize ideas
Study the Specialised English Lessons Writing Modules Separating Information in Texts & Topic Sentences and the Write Time digital documentary How to Write Essays to study the use of paragraphing in texts.
- use a range of vocabulary and relevant supporting details to convey meaning and create atmosphere and mood
View Specialised English Lessons Writing Modules Features of Texts & Objective and Subjective Language to explore how to effectively use vocabulary to convey meaning.
Study the Specialised English Lessons Reading Modules Using Emotive Language, Interpreting Texts & Figurative Language to assist learners to use vocabulary to create atmosphere and mood.
- use planning, drafting, editing and reviewing processes independently and with increasing competence
Use the Specialised English Lessons Writing Modules Creating Imaginative Texts, Information Report & Arguments and the Write Time digital documentaries to improve planning, drafting, editing and reviewing processes.
- critique the writing of peers sensitively; offer constructive suggestions
View the Specialised English Lessons Spoken Language Module Talking About Feelings to explore how to use appropriate language to respond sensitively to others.
- vary sentence structure and length
Use the Specialised English Lessons Writing Module How to Join Sentences and the Sentences module in the Grammar section of Skill Builders to develop awareness of how to vary sentence structure and length.
- demonstrate an increasing understanding of how grammar works
Develop learners’ understanding of how grammar works using the Specialised English Lessons Writing Modules How to Join Sentences, What are Noun Phrases?, Adding Descriptors, What Time is it? (Tense) & Why Punctuate? and the Grammar modules and worksheets in Skill Builders.
- use standard spelling for most words and use appropriate resources to check spelling
Learners study the Spelling modules in Skill Builders and complete associated worksheets to reinforce spelling skills.
- use a dictionary, thesaurus, spellchecker confidently and effectively to check accuracy, broaden vocabulary and enrich their writing
Promote dictionary use by completing Task 3 of the Specialised English Lessons Writing Module Why is English Spelt so Strangely?
- choose to publish written work in handwritten form or in digital format independently
View the Specialised English Lessons Writing Module Creating Imaginative Texts and allow learners to choose to publish the activity for Task 2 in digital format or handwritten form.
- use written language as a means of reflecting on their own learning
Learners complete the tasks from the Specialised English Lessons Writing Module Digital Composition and write a reflective text about they thought of their final story film and what they learnt along the way.
- recognize and use figurative language to enhance writing, for example, similes, metaphors, idioms, alliteration
Use the Specialised English Lessons Reading Module Figurative Language to study similes, metaphors and personification.
View the Specialised English Lessons Wrting Module More and Better Words and Specialised English Lessons Reading Module What Are Idioms? to study idioms and proverbs.
Study the Write Time digital documentary How to Write Poetry to explore alliteration.
- identify and describe elements of a story—setting, plot, character, theme
Study the Specialised English Lessons Reading Module People Just Like Us and the Write Time digital documentaries Deconstructing a Story and How to Write a Story to explore the elements of a story.
- locate, organize, synthesize and present written information obtained from a variety of valid sources
Use the Specialised English Lessons Reading Modules Refining Research Skills & Mapping Information and the Write Time digital documentary How to Write Information to develop skills in locating, organizing, synthesizing and presenting written information.
- use a range of tools and techniques to produce written work that is attractively and effectively presented.
View the Specialised English Lessons Writing Module Digital Pictures and Publishing and use Tasks 1 & 2 to provide an opportunity for learners to produce written work attractively and effectively.
