From Oral to Written Narrative

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From Oral to Written Narrative

• Moira Lloyd, School Improvement Service
• Stacey Hicks, Beverley High School
• Rebecca Coe, Beverley Grammar School

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Course materials

• From Oral to Written Narrative, a pack of
  activities and ideas aimed at Key Stage 2, Black
  Sheep Press.
• Talkaboutsecondary school, a pack of activities
  to develop situational understanding and verbal
  reasoning skills,
• Black Sheep Press

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Characteristics of Students with SLCN

• Disorganised in time
• Disorganised with possessions
• Difficulties structuring work
• Disorganised in place
• Difficulties with comprehension
• Difficulties with vocabulary
• Difficulties generalising from specifics
• A long time to process information
• Frequently distracted

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Choosing the cohort

• Y7
• Low level 3 in KS2 NC writing test
• Group of 4 likely to work well together
• Pre intervention testing in 3 schools

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Objectives

• To build confidence orally doesnt involve
  written/reading/ worksheet activities - all oral
  sessions
• Group of 4 build relationships
• Build up listening and understanding, memory,
  expressive and social skills
• Improve written work/vocabulary

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General Strategies

• Teach students to file and organise their work
• Show them the classroom rules
• Explain the purpose of an activity
• Emphasise key points
• Slow everything down
• Chunk information
• Give students time to answer

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General strategies

• Provide list of vocabulary for new topics and
  check understanding
• Visual cues and concrete materials
• Use gesture and action
• Give direct instructions
• Give written directions and instructions for
  assignments.
• Demonstrate and talk through tasks

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Lesson Structure

• Warm up
• Revisit previous lessons
• New concept
• Activities to reinforce concept
• Summary

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Using Cue Cards

• When?
• Who?
• Where?
• Problem
• Solution
• Dialogue
• Emotion

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Personalising the resources
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Pupil Responses

• I love coming here!
• Its not like a real lesson
• I think these lessons are working because I can
  write down my ideas better describe things
  better.
• I now know that I have to use when, where, what,
  who, how also that a story has a problem a
  solution.
• I found these lessons very helpful because now I
  can get my ideas out of my head onto paper.
• It also helps me in my Humanities, French
  Spanish lessons.
• Im now more confident.

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TA Responses

• It didnt take long to see a definite
  improvement in the pupils performance.
• This Oral to writing Narrative programme clearly
  builds the confidence ability of the pupils
  using it.
• Even those that dont like writing have enjoyed
  using this method have achieved in their
  lessons wanted to go on to do writing once the
  ideas started to flow.
• A brilliant programme that has been proved to
  work in English lessons as well as other
  subjects.

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Outcomes

• Increased TA self confidence
• Increased pupil self confidence both socially and
  in class interactions
• Improved skills
• Improved motivation
• Increased lesson enjoyment
• Improved working relationships