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.

4 key things to think about when writing.

•Vocabulary

•Connectives

•Openers

•Punctuation

Activity 1: Choose a picture and write it down.

E.g. The mouse.

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.

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

Now let’s make it really interesting: Turn it into a 4A sentence

The little, furry mouse was on the large, red bus.

•Make the adjectives interesting.

•Use a variety of different adjectives.

•Good opportunity to introduce children to new vocabulary and ambitious words.

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

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.

Opener Vocabulary

Connective Punctuatio

n

First

Next

Just at that moment

Suddenly

Quickly running

Excitedly skipping

enormous

gigantic

impeccable

magnificent

anxious

gorgeous

and

but/yet

or

so

because

however

.

?

,

!

“ “

Only focus on 3.

•Ing ly•The more, the more•2 pair

Expresses 2 things that vary together.

Teach it as a feeling leading to an action/ or an action leading to a feeling.

e.g.

The more angry she felt, the more she banged her fists on the table.

The more he ran, the more out of breathe he began to feel.

2 pairs of related adjectives

Allows children to use a range of adjectives to describe how a character is feeling/looks likee.g.Scared and upset, tearful and worried, she ran away from the bullies.

Euphoric and delighted, amused and jubilant, she giggled at the magician.

Startled and shocked, excited and joyous, she won her game of football.

• Postcards•Letters (from you, family, characters – write a reply)•Text messages •Emails •Stories •Recounts•Poems•Songs/raps •Invitations/cards

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.