Before this session, we read and reflected on two articles by Dr Helen Walls.
Taking The Simple View of Writing as a starting point, Helen Walls elaborates on each key writing skills: Transcription, Text Generation, Executive Function.
We agreed that the implications for us when planning writing sessions are:
- Working memory is a challenge for many of our writers, especially priority learners (for example, letter formation may not be automatic).
- The importance of practising things correctly so as to avoid establishing incorrect neural networks (habits).
- Lesson design: what are you focussing on? Less is more and learning can be scaffolded so as to lighten the cognitive load in some areas, allowing focus on other skills.
- Spelling patterns: what resources are we using?
- Grammar: how much?
- Use of models and exemplars (including children's work): this is what my writing could look like.
In our phase groups, we looked at what we are doing to support children in each of the three key areas. What's working well now? What else could we try or which areas need a boost (E.B.I)?
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