Transcript Literature Works Grammar presentation

Walkergate Community School
Literature Works Grammar Group
19th June 2015
Talk for Reading
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Activate Prior Knowledge
Predict
Clarify
Questions
Summarise
Likes and dislikes
Enquiry
• Could we improve children’s
understanding of grammar – in particular
using the correct verb tense - through the
Literature Works approach?
Enquiry contd.
• My Target
• To get 70% pupils in Year 5 to a level 4 in
SPAG
• Baseline test
Enquiry contd.
• Results
• Out of 27 children 16 got N – less than 25/70
• 11 scored
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4 – 3C
3 – 3B
3 – 3A
1 – 5C
Enquiry contd.
• Writing baseline
Gaps – couldn’t use a consistent past tense
Eg. We went to the shop, I give him 50p.
I walked to school , I seen my friend.
I woke up and et my breakfast, then I go to the park.
Lack of imaginative vocabulary
READING – generally poor fluency and inference
No stamina!
Example
What we did
• We decided not to “teach” Grammar.
• We decided to “teach” reading instead.
Walkergate Community School
• Every child in school, every term, gets a
class text to read and take home.
• We chose
Page 1 – Iron Man
• Features of the language
• Adjectives
• “describing word”
They drew him from this description…
What does he look like
at the bottom of page 6?
Other examples
• Close reading strategies
• Used as guided reading text for everyone
• Collecting examples of verbs and thinking
of our own
• Collecting vocabulary and finding
synonyms and antonyms
Outcomes
• Pupils: did we get 70% to a level 4? No! But massive improvement
in SPAG results. By May test – 27scored
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2A
3C
3B
3A
4C
4B
4A
5C
5B
Outcomes
School – Year 1 and 6 also successful in their approach.
Feedback to staff
And most importantly… I get to read lovely writing now!
Mckenzie – example independent work