Write to the Top

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Write to the Top
using
Big Writing
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The Language Curriculum

• Reading

• Writing

• Listening

• Talking

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Writing
Writing is a major part of the curriculum and
along with reading, listening and talking, makes
a significant contribution to the development of
children as thinkers and learners.
Writing involves a set of complex skills that
will not develop without structured teaching and
practice.
At Newhills Primary we are using the Big Writing
approach to writing. This approach is based on
child centred, interactive learning with a focus
on four core targets of
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We collect and steal WOW words from each other
and from published authors! We collect these in
our Bright Ideas books and display them on our
VCOP wall. We always try to be as ambitious as
possible. For example
V
ocabulary
observatory
expand
delirious
insignificant
segregation
independence
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Connectives are joining words. We have found far
more exciting and ambitious ways to join
sentences together, rather than using BUT all the
time
C
onnectives
therefore
otherwise
although
consequently
however
whilst
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The way we open sentences is really important if
we want our writing to be interesting. Choosing
ambitious words and varying the way we start
sentences brings our writing alive
O
Afterwards
Just then
peners
Another
Suddenly
Luckily
Unfortunately
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Punctuation adds so much to our writing.
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It can get your attention!
It can add suspense
unctuation
It can make you ask questions, cant it?
We use our punctuation pyramid to help us uplevel
our work to a more ambitious level.
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How we use Big Writing in class
We will now show you how we use our Learning
Intentions and Success Criteria and link them to
our VCOP.
As well as that, we will show you some
uplevelling tasks and VCOP work we do in class.
After that, we will go through to Mrs Khirs
class and show you some of the interactive VCOP
games we play.