Writing Professional Development- Minutes taken by Gabrielle
Session 1 - Overview
What are we doing to enable all of our students to be writers?
UDL tool - how to make a seesaw activity. Can direct to certain kids, and in folders. See Video.
Had writing with Murray Gadd and Sally Muir, how do we make this our own?
We’ll be completing Internal Evaluation of writing this year.
What makes good writing - it’s tricky. We’ll try and work this out collectively. Can you share something generated in classroom that you’re happy with?
What are we looking for in a piece of writing from kids?
Personal voice, authentic
Picture in your mind
Fits purpose
Makes sense, shows thinking
Some structure, finished - clarity over purpose practice or product
Impact, audience awareness
Supports, passion
Legible
Risks eg spelling
Purpose
Free as possible
Passionate
Pumped
Their writing, personal
Pride
Getting started
Pride “happy with”
Voice
Scaffolding balance especially with emergent writers, structure, phonics, letters, word bank
Fluency
Talk
Choice of genre
Link with reading
Text models eg Gail Laing book, model texts to share
Details overdone
Recrafting
Challenging yourself
Verbs not adjectives, rich words
Variety of sentence structures
Does it sound good?
Honesty in expression
Audience
Purpose
Clarity - legibility, ideas, structure
Discussion around personal voice
How to tap into great ideas when process (maybe physical) stops them. Could record stories
Technology can help, eg purpose can be to entertain and be good storytellers
Write without thinking - fluency
Goals and aims for literacy practice 2018 - take ownership of our teaching and learning of writing… what do we do that affects change?
Literacy Action plan 2017 - keep front of mind
Formative assessment
How do we give feedback, consistency across staff etc?
Direction for students
Communicated on seesaw too
Scope may widen beyond reading, writing and maths
Developing writing programmes for our students…
Teaching as inquiry - lifting student achievement - more on Thursday
Share in pairs ides
Nicola shared her writing inquiry term 4 2017. There was a focus on goal setting and progress towards that. Great engagement with boys bringing friends to the writing group. Lots of choice.
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