Reading into Writing: Blog items
Reading into Writing so far this half-term...
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 12:14pm
Year 6 Poetry Workshop with Nathan Parker
Date: 6th Dec 2022 @ 4:56pm
Today Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from local author/poet - Nathan Parker. He spent the first part of the visit talking about his works and his inspirations for writing. The children then took part in several short activities that got them to think about emotions and rhyming words. By the end of the session, the children created a whole class poem around pets - we all had a great time with Nathan and we hope to work with him again.
Date: 6th Dec 2022 @ 12:34pm
As the final part of our 'Reading into Writing' journey, we have peer assessed our writing. We have been learning about stories from other cultures and this week pupils wrote their own Aborigional Dreamtime story. Today, pupils worked together to assess whether they had been successful in including all of the features from this text type.
Year 5 - Aspirational Scientists
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 4:21pm
As part of our learning journey in science, we have learned about Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in Space when she was part of the Challenger Shuttle crew in 1983. Pupils found out about her life, before using their literacy skills to write a biography about this amazing person. As a child, Sally Ride was a star pupil and outstanding tennis player. She has degrees in physics and English, and helped design the Challenger Shuttle's 'arm' which was used in space. After working for NASA, Sally was a professor at the University of California, wrote children's books about science, and started a school program to encourage children, especially girls, to become scientists. After her death in 2012, Sally's sister revelled that she had been in a same-sex relationship with a fellow scientist, and had sadly felt that she needed to keep it a secret for 27 years to protect her career.
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 8:14pm
In today's Reading into Writing lesson, we used discussion, debate and drama to understand the emotions, thoughts and feelings experienced by two characters in the book -Tell Me No Lies. After talking about the characters and listening to each others discussions, we developed a list of vocabulary that we could use in the diaries that we are going to be writing over the next few days.
Year 1 The Jolly Christmas Postman!
Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 7:18pm
After reading our new text we received a letter from ‘The Jolly Postman!’
We used our phonics knowledge to decode the letter and to find out what he had to say! We also identified the address, the date, who the letter is to and who the letter is from. Over the next few days we will be reading a range of different letters, highlighting the key features and further developing our understanding of the purpose of letters.
Date: 22nd Nov 2022 @ 12:03pm
This week we have started a new Reading into Writing journey. For this journey we are learning about playscripts. We have started our journey by reading some good examples. The first example we read was a playscript about Boudicca. We found the features of a playscript then had a go at acting the scene out.
Reception - Reading and Writing
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 8:36pm
Reception have been working hard to ensure that they form their letters correctly. This week we have been practicing the letters a and d, using our letter rhymes to ensure we use an anticlockwise movement. The children have been practicing regularly as part of our daily challenges as well as completing loads of different task in continuous provison.
Date: 1st Nov 2022 @ 1:57pm
This year we are really focusing on our handwriting. This afternoon we did some activities to help support our handwriting practise. Please encourage your children to practise at home too. After we went over some tricky letter formations, we wrote a poem for Remembrance Day for our Year 4 display.
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today, we completed our fantasy setting descriptions. Here are some examples of the children's fantastic writing! This is the setting they were describing: https://www.literacyshed.com/draculas-whitby.html
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 7:34pm
This week Year 1 have been reading the story 'Funnybones.' We have focused on sentence structure by reading and ordering mixed up sentences. We re-read each sentence to ensure it made sense and had capital letters and full stops in the correct places. We have also been writing our own sentences about characters in the story. In our provision we have also completed lots of independent writing and reading tasks relating to the story.
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 2:57pm
This month, as part of our School celebration of Black History Month we have been completing our writing journey about Rosa Parks. As part of our GPS lessons we looked at information about Rosa Parks and the influence she had on Black rights by refusing to give up her seat and wrote statements about her life and questions we would have liked to have asked her if she was still alive. We will use our knowledge to write a letter to Rosa thanking her for her hard work and determination.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:29am
In Year 4, something we all need to work on is spotting simple errors in our writing. Today, we did some activities to practise spotting errors such as missing full stops, missing capital letters and simple spellings errors.
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 7:28pm
What a great afternoon we had taking part in the Spelling Bee. Four children from Year 5 represented their house in the spelling competition. Each person showed courage, determination and confidence in attempting their words and did really well, adding to the overall total for their houses. Well Done Chepstow, who were the winners!
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 6:40pm
This week we held the first Spelling Bee of the year. All children were tested on 30 spellings they have been learning this half term and the best speller in each house was chosen to represent their team.
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 11:38am
During the start of our reading into writing journey for Non-Chronological reports we have been reading and finding the features of different good examples (WAGOLLS). We have also done a jigsaw task where we had to read each paragraph, work out which text it belonged to and organise the structure. We decided on the order and layout before gluing them down.
Year 4's amazing figurative language list
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 8:29pm
For the last few weeks of this half term, we are writing a fantasy setting description. The children were shown the setting they'd be describing today and then they worked really hard together to come up with examples of figurative language and fronted adverbials that they could use in their own writing.
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 10:29am
In Reading into Writing, we have started learning about diaries. Today we started our immersion into reading and read a variety of WAGOLLs. We idenitfied the main points of the texts and began to idenitfy the features that linked in the texts. We did this in pairs and then joined to make a four and share our findings.
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 2:58pm
This half-term, children in year 5 have been learning how to write a biography. We have read biographies of several famous people including, Roald Dahl, Stormzy and Wayne Rooney, and identified the language and structural features that make them different to other text types. Follwing the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, pupils carried out research, planned, drafted and edited a biography of her life, before presenting a final, polished piece of writing.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 12:16pm
Reception have been busy learning out new letters sounds in phonics. We have been working hard to orally segement simple words and then blend the sounds together. We are beginning to recognise some of our phase 2 sounds and trying our best to hear the initial sound and form the letter sound correctly using our letter rhymes..
' s s s sock" Alfie
"p p p penguin" Nikodem
"t-a-p it's tap" Lana-Rose.
"Around the astonaunts helment, down and out into space. It's a a" Michael
The children have been completing a range of different phonics activities in continuous provision. Have a look at some of our work!
Reception Rosie the hen went for a walk
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 12:05pm
Reception have been reading the story 'Rosie's Walk'. It is all about a little hen who goes for a walk around the farmyard. However, Rosie the hen isn't aware that she is being followed by a very sneaky fox. She goes all over the farmyard "around the pond' 'over the haystack' and 'under the beehives'. The fox gets himself into allsorts of trouble including falling into the pond and it finally ends in him being chased away by the bees.
The children have been using the props at the storytelling table to help them sequence the story and used the correct positional language. That have made their own story maps and have been trying hard to hear the initial sound in words e.g. f for fox and h for hen.
Outside the children made their own obstacle course for Rosie and enjoyed acting out the story together.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:28am
In Year 6 we have finished our first Reading into Writing journey - explanatory texts. We followed all the stages of the journey:
- Cold write
- Looking at a WAGOLL for features
- Immersion in Reading
- GPS linked to the genre
- Teacher model/Shared write
- Improving a WABOLL
- Plan
- Draft
- Edit
- Hot write
We produced some excellent writing for our first piece in Year 6. Our end piece of writing was to explain how to use a 'Teacher Pleaser' machine. We think our teachers would be very happy if they had a machine like the ones we invented!!
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 9:23am
In year 4 this year, we are really focusing on handwriting. We are doing handwriting lessons daily to try and help improve the children's handwriting. We are mainly focusing on letter formation, but we are also pushing the children to write the neatest they can and not to rush. You will notice when the children bring their spelling homework home each week, there is an opportunity for them to practise their handwriting with their spellings.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 3:46pm
Today we took part in a shared writing session. We had to work as a team to devise a paragraph that would work as part of a biography for Ellen White, who was one of the England Team for the Euro's in 2022. We needed to include the features we had been learning about, including third person and past tense. We managed to manipulate some of the sentences to include fronted adverbial phrase.
Year 3 Exploring Explanation Texts
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:45pm
During our Reading into Writing session today, we continued to identify the features of an explanation text. We focused on 4 features today: title, conjuntions, time connnectives and technical vocabulary. We worked together to unpick WAGOLLs and find these features. We used our findings to collate a bank of good examples as a class.
