Turaki School Staff Meeting Notes - What are good writers?
This is what we thought Good Writers do:
- Sequenced ideas
- Express ideas coherently
- Be able to re-read
- Motivated/Belief in their ability/Try
- Interesting language
- Personal voice
- Engaging for the audience
- Go back and check and make changes
Poor Writers:
- not motivated
- easily frustrated
- unable to even verbally communicate ideas (oral language)
- don't have the skills to hear/record sounds, form letters, develop ideas, use different sentences, punctuation
- avoid the task
- not risk takers/needy
Pam - asked the question - Are we looking at growing writers or are we just looking at the end product?
The curriculum talks about expressing, identifying and forming.
At Rototuna school - Kylie Morris
Critical to make connections between oral language and reading and writing. The oral language is so important. They need the vocab before they can describe etc....
Seeding language/language play - starting sessions with lots of talk around an artefact/picture/video. Children are asked to notice. Teacher listens and thinks about what needs to be grown - vocab/facts.
Growing sentences - Sentence patterns - the balloon has, the balloon can.
Write from the motivation rather than about it.
Things to look into
- Different sentence patterns to teach
- More opportunities for talking amongst themselves
Things that back up what we are doing in STU
- Our Monday motivation/talk session is really important. Maybe we don't need to jump into that first sentence on that day. Could record what we talked about with iPad (all oral not written).
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