HELPING YOUR CHILD WITH WRITING

Parent Writing Workshop

Thankyou for your time and interest

What is Writing?

The Jolly PostmanBy Janet & Allan Ahlberg

What is writing?

What writing have you done in the

past 2 days? (Brainstorm)

How has Literacy changed over time?

• 2008 - UNESCO stated that Literacy is a fundamental right and a springboard for education for all and moving towards eradication of poverty and broadening participation in society.

• Because of the globalisation of communication, India has improved their Literacy rates in 60 years and the same rate of development took the US 300 years.

14th

Century

80% of English adults could not spell their names

In 1440 the printing press was invented and at that time 30% of European asdults were literate

15th

Century17th

Century

After the printer was developed literacy rates developed rapidly. In 1641 30% and 1696 47%

18th

Century

By the 1800 as education become more widely accessible 62% became literate

20th

Century

By 1950 56% wordwide were literate . And in 1995 this had grown to 77%

21st

Century

In 2008 83% of Europeans were literate

What is the writing process?

Has 2 aspects

Authorial Secretarial

What is the writing process?

Activity1. Write a shopping list for yourself or a list of jobs you

have to do this week

2. Now write the same list for someone else to follow

The Writing Process

AUDIENCE + PURPOSE = FORM

The Stages of Development

ACTIVITY

Put the pictures in order of when they occur developmentally

These are the stages of writing development

•Role Play•Experimental•Early•Conventional •Proficient

Role Play Writing Phase

beginning to understand that writing is used to convey meaningor messages;

writers copy adult writing by experimenting with marks to represent written language.

Role Play writers rely heavily on topic knowledge to generate text.

their messages are not readable by others.

Experimental Writing Phase

They rely on familiar topics to generate a variety of texts such as greeting cards, lists and letters.

writers are aware that speech can be written down.

These words may consist of one, two or three letters, and reflect their developing understanding of sound–symbol relationships.

They demonstrate an understanding of one-to-one correspondence by representing most spoken words in their written texts.

Early Writing Phase

Early writers produce a small range of texts that exhibit some of the conventions of writing.

Texts such as retells, reports andemails are composed to share experiences, information or feelings.

Early writers have a small bank of frequently used words that they spell correctly.

When writing unknown words, they choose letters on the basis of sound, without regard for conventional spelling patterns.

Transitional Writing Phase

Writing shows evidence of a bank of known words that are spelt correctly.

Transitional writers show increasing control over the conventions of writing such as punctuation, spelling and text organisation.

They consider audience and purpose when selecting ideas and information to be included in texts.

They compose a range of texts, including explanations, narratives, brochures and electronic presentations.

Writing shows evidence of a bank of known words that are spelt correctly.

Transitional writers are moving away from a heavy reliance on sounding out and are beginning to integrate visual and meaning-based strategies to spell unknown words.

Conventional Writing PhaseIn this phase, writers use an increasing bank of known words and select from a wide vocabulary.

They integrate a range of strategies to spell unknown words.

Conventional writers demonstrate control over the conventions of writing and most components of the writing process.

While composing, they take responsibility for adjusting the language and content to suit specific audiences and purposes.

Conventional writers craft a variety of literary and informational texts, such as biographies, web pages and documentary scripts.

How do we teach writing?

Focus

Model

Interactive

Teach

Maintain

Develop

Expose

Build On

Focus

What do we do in classrooms?

• Language Experience

• Shared writing

• Guided writing

• Independent writing

• Word work

• Work on writing

Approaches to teaching writing

A big part of writing is being able to talk about what you are going to write about first, if they can’t ‘say it’ then it is very difficult to

‘write it’.

ACTIVITY1. Turn to your partner and talk about your ‘Magic Door’Guiding questions :What does your door look like? What might be on the other side?

2. Write a paragraph in 5 minutes• The Magic Door

3. Lets edit our work• Use a blue highlighter to highlight your openers• Use the green highlighter to highlight punctuation• Use yellow to highlight vocab• Use red to highlight connectives

How can you help with writing?

Focus on ideas and intent

Golden Rules For Writing

• DO offer plenty of praise

• DON’T bribe a child to read or write

• DO allow different forms of writing

• DON’T get obsessed with spelling

• DO speak to me and us

What do teachers do?

• Daily opportunities to write for authentic purposes

• Teach genre and text form elements

• Conferring

• Refine and extend their skills and understandings

• Handwriting

• Create online texts

Create

(Authorial)• Focus on ideas,

content and their intention

Edit and Proof Read

(Secretarial)

• Ready for publication

PURPOSE + AUDIENCE = FORM

Spelling Development

• What makes a good speller?

• Who is a good speller that you know?

• How do you become a good speller?

How do we teach spelling at school?

• It is not just about doing a spelling test on a Friday and learning words, it is far more complex

• It is a shift from knowing a base to knowing the words that we use all of the time.

• Some words are phonetic which we can sound out and other are not eg. was, one. Some words we just need to know.

• The most frequently used words are what they need to know and act us a foundation building block needed to extend and explore.

• Most frequently used words which shifts to and develops to word study- golden words, red words etc.- THRASS, Oxford, SWST

• Questions

• Handout