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Learning and Teaching – A Focus on Writing HGIOS 5.1 – The Curriculum 5.2 – Teaching for Effective learning Literacy Toolkit

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Page 1: Learning and Teaching – A Focus on Writing Learning and Teaching – A Focus on Writing HGIOS 5.1 – The Curriculum 5.2 – Teaching for Effective learning

Learning and Teaching – A Focus on Writing

HGIOS

• 5.1 – The Curriculum• 5.2 – Teaching for Effective learning

Literacy Toolkit

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Agenda

• Activity 1 – Introduction / Starter Activity (5 mins)

• Activity 2 – How’s it going / feedback (10-20 mins)

• Activity 3 – New Learning (50 – 90 mins)

• Activity 4 – Personal Action Planning (10 mins)

• Activity 5 – Summary of Learning (5 mins)

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Activity 1: Voice on the table

In a maximum of 30 seconds, share something you have read that has made you smile or laugh.

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Activity 2: How’s it going?

A community of writers: St Ninian's Primary SchoolThis film describes how to foster creativity. Staff foster creativity through the setting up of a community of writers to write for real purposes within a primary school.

'A Community of Writers’

What features do you think are most effective in promoting high quality writing experiences?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . .promote the approaches embedded within

the Highland Learning Policy regarding learning intentions, success criteria and feedback about how to improve - NOT grades and/or levels?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . promote extended writing for the

purposes defined by the SSLN:

* to convey experiences or information* to describe events (real or imagined)* to explain processes* to persuade* to explore issues* to express an opinion?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . provide learners with real purposes and

audiences within contexts which are meaningful to the interests of the learner?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . provide practitioners with varied,

differentiated and easily accessible resources and stimuli to support writing?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . adapt easily, ensuring relevance to each

level/age/stage?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . allow learners to engage in dialogue about

the extent of their success – self, peer, teacher, parent/carer assessment?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . provide opportunities for creativity, giving

learners the freedom to explore?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . include play based activities – initially

developed within the Nursery context and extended throughout the 3-18 curriculum?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . provide opportunities for the teacher and

others to model writing as a process – clarifying that editing is a vital element

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . take full account of ICT to provide models

AND as a tool for producing writing?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . approach writing through a ‘Read to

Write’ model?i.e. analysing a text and then writing one in the same genre

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . address content, structure and technical

accuracy: securing the development of structure and content before technical accuracy using punctuation?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . value the writing process – aiming to

engage and enthuse learners?

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Activity 3: New Learning

Does your current writing practice . . . provide opportunities to evaluate both

strengths and development areas?

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Activity 4: Personal Action Planning

Choose one or two elements that you are going to explore and evaluate over the coming weeks.

Bring back your findings to the next session

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Activity 5: Summary of Learning

Write your name on the card or post-it as well as something you will try differently in your teaching of writing over the coming weeks.

Leave your card or post-it on your way out.

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