Transcript Welcome to St. Mary`s R.C. Primary School

Writing in
Primary 1.
Aims of the workshop
To give you….
• an insight into how we teach writing at
Livingston Village.
• ideas to support and encourage your
child's writing at home.
Why do we write?
• For pleasure and enjoyment
• For communication e.g. emails, text
messages.
• Reminders, notes, recipes, shopping
lists, cheques, forms, postcards
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Letter to santa!!
How does writing develop?
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Emergent writing
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Early shapes
Writing begins with mark making.
How does writing develop?
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Using recognisable letters
Using recognisable words
How does writing develop?
Early Writing
When writing, young children:
•often repeat patterns e.g. use the letters in their
name.
•see what it looks like backwards.
•list everything they can remember.
•try out novel combinations.
•imitate observed patterns.
HOW WE HELP IN SCHOOL
• Allow free play with writing material
• Teach letter sounds and shapes and practise building words
• Provide opportunities to practise letter formation
• Provide pre-written text
• Scribe for children or encourage them to write initial
letter, odd words and eventually whole story
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Teach word patterns e.g. all words contain a
vowel, rhyming words bat, sat, cat etc…...
How do we go about it?
Letter shapes and sounds - word building
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Flashcards
Magnetic letters
Action rhymes
Handwriting
practice
• Homework tasks.
How do we go about it?
Creative writing - personal, imaginative, functional
• Introduce subject
• Child provides text and teacher
scribes
• Child copies scribed text
• Child finishes sentence
(emergent writing)
• Child writes story independently
What about
spelling and
grammar?
VCOP
VCOP stands for Vocabulary,
Connectives, Openers and
Punctuation.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
• Make it real. Make it fun.
• Homework – Ensure correct formation
• Encourage mark making
• Encourage language development orally at home.
• Model writing messages, lists, labels, instructions,
letters and stories.