Steven Graham 3/09/2014

Take each sentence and put it on a separate page in book creator then find a picture to match.

By breaking it down makes it more manageable.

Embellishing the writing Adding supplementary sentences. Get children to stand up behind first four students and add a supplementary sentence.  Then use Coloured strips white for initial sentence and orange for supplementary sentence. Then they can turn simple sentence into compound or complex sentence.  

Take a bubble and put structure on the. Bubble. When you have included each step in your writing then put a magnet on that place so can ensure all bases covered.

Successes were 

1. longer sentences 
2. Helping each other
3. Shared writing
4. Noun - pronoun - pronoun - noun pattern
5. Paragraphs are easier to write and understand
6. Oral language practice = confidence
7. ESOL understand tense
8. Edit tick boxes - they are proud of their writing
9. Self monitoring
10. Vocab is improving
11. Theory to practice in classroom

Challenges

1. Wide range of abilities
2. Transferring to other forms is confusing
3. As a teacher not to go too fast
4. Need for grouping - teams vs whole class
5. Structure vs voice

Next Steps

Talked often about Steve Peha and his method of writing

Need to get children to notice. First years of teaching should involve loads of writing what you notice.

Integrate the ideas.

Mostly for teachers and their learning.  Going from formula to more natural writing.

Taking it from writing into reading and recognising the structures 

Familiar - less familiar - literary

Using the description bubble in different ways.