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WRITING FOR PARENTS
June 2016
WELCOME
What we write
How we write- handwriting
When we write
Progression in writing
Terminology used with children throughout school.
Spelling
Word use
Sentence and text
Help at home
WHAT DO WE WRITE AT SCHOOL?
.Fiction- stories, plays, descriptions
Non-fiction- lists, labels, reports, letters, postcards,
instructions, information texts, posters, diaries,
recounts, newspapers, persuasion, autobiographies,
discussions, arguments
Poetry- various styles
How do we tell you? Curriculum maps on class web
page and also sent home.
What do you write?
English
Maths
•Fractions
•Puzzle and 2-stage problem solving
•Multiplication and division
•Translations
•Measures
•Time problems
•Inverses
•Direction and position
Discoverers - Year 4
Summer 2 2016
Local Study
Spiritual, Moral, Social,
Cultural
Art and Design
Pencil sketches
History and Geography
•Shouldham in OS maps
•Symbols and contours
•Local geography
•Stories addressing issues.
•Letters to a Friendship School
•School Guides
•Narrative poetry
•Grammatical skills
•Comprehension skills
•Spelling - suffixes
•Dictionary and Thesaurus use
Places of Worship
Links with Marham School
Local links with the past
RE- Christianity and
Sikhism
Journey to a place of worship
Computing
•Spreadsheets
•Safe Internet use
•Research skills
Music
Singing
Recorders
MFL
French
Science
Light and Shadows
Sound
P.E.
Athletics
Team games
HOW DO WE WRITE?
Handwriting booklet for parents- sent home.
Fine motor skills- manipulating clay or playdough-threading
beads- drawing in sand- bags of shaving foammark making
…..pre-cursive
…. cursive
Pre-cursive
a b c d ef g h i j k l m
n op q r st u v w x y z
Ascenders (tall letters)
Descenders (go below the line)
bd f h k l t f gj p q y
A BC DEF GH I J KL
M N O P Q RS T U V
W XYZ
0 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
sit correctly; hold pencil
correctly; form lower case in
correct direction, starting and
finishing in correct place; form
capital letters, 0-9; know families
formed in same way
Year 1 :
Year 3 and 4: use diagonal and horizontal
Year 2 :
Form lower case of the correct size to one
another; start using diagonal strokes
needed to join; know which letters are
best left unjoined; write capital letters
the correct size; use spacing between
words which reflects the size of letters
strokes needed to join letters; know which
Handwriting licence
letters are best left unjoined; increase
Competitions
legibility, consistency and quality of
Display in school
writing; - downstrokes parallel, equidistant
– ascenders and descenders do not touch
Year 5 and 6 : write legibly and fluently
words on adjacent lines.
Home:
Practise- use school examples-
with increasing speed; choose shape of
letter when given choices; choice
whether or not to join specific letters;
choose writing implement best suited
for task.
WHEN DO WE WRITE?
English lessons
Grammar lesson
Spelling lessons
Topic- cross curricular lessons…..
PROGRESSING WITH OUR WRITING
The cat sat on the grass. (noun verb preposition
determiner)
The stripy cat sat on the green grass. (adjectives)
The stripy cat sprawled contentedly on the green
grass.(adverb- better verb)
The ferocious, stripy tiger sprawled contentedly on the
green grass with the half-eaten zookeeper in his
stomach. (possessive pronoun, synonym)
The ferocious, stripy tiger, from the zoo, sprawled
contentedly on the grass with the half-eaten zookeeper
in his stomach because he had not been fed for three
days. (conjunction, relative clause)
TERMINOLOGY EARLY YEARS AND KS1
Finger spaces
Letter
Word
Sentence
Full stops
Capital letter
’
Year 1
Letter
Capital letter (+ I)
Word
Singular
Plural
Sentence
Punctuation
Full stop
Question mark
Exclamation mark
Year 2
Verb
Suffix
Tense (past present)
Noun
Noun phrase
Statement
Question
Exclamation
Compound
Adjective
Apostrophe it’s he’d
Comma
TERMINOLOGY KS2
Year 4
Determiner
Pronoun
Possessive pronoun
adverbial
Year 3
Conjunction
Word Family
Prefix
Clause
Subordinate clause
Direct speech
Consonant
Vowel
Inverted commas (speech marks)
Year 5
Modal verb (might should will)
Relative pronoun
Relative clause (who whose that)
Parenthesis –bracket-dash
Cohesion
Ambiguity
Year 6
Subject
Object
Active
Passive
Synonym
Antonym
Ellipsis
Hyphen
Colon
Semicolon
Bullet points
Spelling
Phonic for parents- Early Years and KS1
information meeting held
Read Write Inc. resources used in school
Log Book- taken home every day
Activity Book- completed in school every
day
Tricky spelling lists for end of
each year :
Your class teacher will share
these with children.
They are also in LOG BOOKS.
Year 1
the, a, do, to, today, of, said, says, are, were, was, is,
his, has, I, you, your, they, be, he, me, she, we, no, go,
so, by, my, here, there, where, love, come, some, one,
once, ask, friend, school, put, push, pull, full, house, our
Year 2
door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind,
child, children, wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold,
gold, hold, told, every, everybody, even, great, break,
steak, pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past, father,
class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, hour, move, prove,
improve, sure, sugar, eye, could, should, would, who,
whole, any, many, clothes, busy, people, water, again,
half, money, Mr, Mrs, parents, Christmas –
accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business
calendar
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue
decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
favourite
February
forward(s)
fruit
grammar
group
guard
guide
heard
heart
height
history
imagine
increase
important
interest
island
knowledge
learn
length
library
material
medicine
mention
minute
natural
naughty
notice
occasion(ally)
often
opposite
ordinary
particular
peculiar
perhaps
popular
position
possess(ion)
possible
potatoes
pressure
probably
promise
purpose
quarter
question
recent
regular
reign
remember
sentence
separate
special
straight
strange
strength
suppose
surprise
therefore
though/although
thought
through
various
weight
woman/women
Year3
and 4
Common exception words - Year 5 and 6
competition conscience conscious controversy convenience correspond
criticise (critic + ise) curiosity definite desperate determined develop
dictionary disastrous embarrass environment equip (–ped, –ment)
especially exaggerate excellent
existence explanation familiar foreign forty frequently government
guarantee harass hindrance identity immediate(ly) individual interfere
interrupt language leisure lightning marvellous mischievous muscle
necessary neighbour nuisance occupy occur opportunity parliament
persuade physical prejudice privilege profession programme pronunciation
queue recognise recommend relevant restaurant rhyme
rhythm sacrifice secretary shoulder signature sincere(ly) soldier stomach
sufficient suggest symbol system temperature thorough twelfth variety
vegetable vehicle yacht
accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient
apparent appreciate attached available average awkward bargain bruise
category cemetery committee communicate community
Yet more! Words that sound the same but have different spellings
Children are challenged to find own way of recalling how to use these
homophones.
Year
Year 2
Years 3
and 4
Years 5
and 6
Homophones
there, their, they're
here, hear see, sea
bare, bear
one, won
sun, son
two, to, too
be, bee
blue, blew night, knight
accept, except
affect, effect ball, bawl
berry, bury brake, break fair, fare
grate, great
grown, groan plain, plane rain, rein, reign
heel, heal, he'll knot, not mail, male main, mane meat,
meet medal, meddle
missed, mist peace, piece
scene, seen weather, whether whose, who's
licence, license practice, practise prophecy, prophesy
father, farther guessed, guest
heard, herd lead, led
morning, mourning past, passed
precede, proceed principal, principle profit, prophet
stationary, stationery steal, steel whose, who's
Spelling
Earlier phonics meeting covered progression from Reception through Key
Stage 1
Lower Key Stage 2
Prefix un- in- il, ir re sub inter super anti auto dis mis
Suffix –ation
Suffix-ly
Suffix-ous
Suffix –tion-sion-ssion-cian
Suffixes -er -ing to words of more than one syllable (gardening, beginning)
ch -echo chemist- machine-chalet scene discipline
eight they neighbour
gue -que league antique
sc- science discipline
ure measure treasure creature picture
ou (trouble country )
y- (myth Egypt mystery)
Spelling -continued
Upper Key Stage 2
-cious -tious (precious nutritious)
-cial (official artificial)
-ant -ance –ancy –ent –ence –ency
-ible –able – ably –ibly
-fer referral referee – stressed or not stressed
Hyphen co-ordinate re-enter
ei after c receive ceiling
Ough
Silent letters
Year 1
Plural noun suffix (dogs or wishes)
Suffixes- no change to root word (helping helped helper)
Prefix (unkind untie)
USING
WORDS
Year 2
Nouns using compound words or adding ness er (whiteboard, superman)
Adjectives using-ful –less
Adjectives-er –est
Adverbs -ly
Year 3
Prefix- super- anti- autoUse a or an correctly
Word families (solve solution solver dissolve
insoluble)
Year 4
Plural and possessive s
Standard English forms- we were not we was I did
not I done
Year 5
Nouns or adjectives into verbs (-ate –ise –ify)
Prefix-dis de mis over re
WORD
Year 6
Informal and formal speech
Synonyms
Antonyms
SENTENCE AND TEXT
Year 1
Words into sentences
Joining words and joining clause with and
Sequencing sentences to form short narratives.
Year 2
Subordination (when if that because)
Coordination (or and but)
Noun phrases (the blue butterfly, the man in the moon
Statement, question, command, exclamation
Present and past tense
Progressive form (she is drumming, he was shouting)
Year 3
SENTENCE AND TEXT
Using conjunctions (when before after while so because)
Adverbs (then next soon therefore)
Prepositions (before after during in because of)
Paragraphs
Headings and sub-headings
Present perfect (He has gone out to play instead of he went out to play)
Year 4
Choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences
to help cohesion and stop repetition.
Noun phrases improved with adjectives and
prepositional phrases ( the teacher… The strict maths
teacher with curly hair…
Year 5
SENTENCE AND TEXT
Cohesion within a paragraph (then, after that, firstly)
Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (later)
place (nearby) and number (secondly)
Degrees of possibility with adverbs ( perhaps, surely) or
Modal verbs (might should will must)
Year 6
Wider range of cohesive devices (on the other hand, in
contrast, as a consequence)
Ellipsis…
Layout devices: columns, bullet points, tables, columns
Passive I broke the window in the greenhouse…The
window in the greenhouse was broken.
Informal and formal structures
Subjunctive forms If I were…
Were they to come…
Children are taught and encouraged to…
Check, edit, improve (green pen)
Draft… write an improved copy
CHECKING MAY BE BY…
themselves, peer, adult, success ladder,
‘Remember To’ list
JOIN YOUR CHILD ON THEIR JOURNEY TO
BECOME A FANTASTIC WRITER….
A SKILL FOR LIFE!
How to help
Threading beads, writing in clay, sand, mark making
Write names in cards
Lists- shopping –wish list
Invitations
Thank you cards progressing to letters
Challenge with an exciting story start or picture
Puppet show scripts
Copy sport fixture lists, team players
Copy words to a song
Messages, Diary/journal, Competitions
Let the children see you write and how important it is.
AN IMPORTANT SKILL FOR LIFE (letters, forms-jobs, licence…)
Thank you…
Please feed back ideas how we can help.
Your ideas at the meeting:
1. Send out handwriting booklet again in September.
2. Produce a glossary of terminology for parents and
put on web site.
3. Put this presentation on web site.
4. Cary on putting class curriculum maps showing
writing to be covered each half term on web site
and send them home.
5. Hold Early Years and Key Stage 1 phonics meeting
again at end of September.