Looking at my chosen 3, plus the CL comments for our Skippers/Pounamu children has sparked some ideas for writing time.
Whilst punctuation is a surface feature need for child 2 and 3 they also both needs support with structuring their writing. This held true for others too.
To try and help their learning in this I decided to start with a SOLO rubric on punctuation with examples.
The examples are displayed so that the children know what they are aiming for.
As well as working on punctuation, a deeper feature that I want the children to learn is how to structure their writing so it has ideas, order and flow. To help this I focused on writing a recount which the children do all the time...interesting to note that they had no clue what a recount was! Just shows how explicit we need to be when teaching, and that we need to use the language of learning.
This has all just started and Eve is now the writing owl so we will have to see what happens next!
Yes, I think 'learnish' was our goal last term! And it really ties in with clarity in the classroom too! IT's amazing what we presume! That's why reflecting in the way you do is so important for our growth and the growth of the kids :)
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