1. Active Literacy Stage 2 & 3
Taught Writing

2. A Curriculum for Excellence and Active Literacy
Research indicates improved results when literacy is taught in meaningful contexts and using an ‘active’ approach.
Stage 2 and 3 build on the foundations developing and expanding skills and abilities. Making Literacy cross curricular and meaningful.

3. Writing Very important that pupils write every day.
Follow-up tasks from Guided Reading will always require the pupils to write.
Independent, active activities will always involve some writing.
Alongside all of this, pupils still need to be taught how to write.
One taught writing lesson per week related to a meaningful context created within the classroom.

9. Taught Writing Lesson Pupils immersed in a story for 3 weeks, e.g.
Traditional Tales
Hansel & Gretel, Selfish Giant, Snow Queen, Cinderella, Sly Fox and Red Hen, Peter and the Wolf, Rapunzel, Thumbelina, The Frog Prince
Story is heard, read, discussed, told and re-enacted several times over the 3 weeks.
Word banks are built up on wall.
Writing lesson ‘title’ links with story – pupils already have access to key words and subject is meaningful to them.
Encourages enthusiasm for writing.

10. Outdoor Environment
Sometimes an outdoor opportunity presents itself as an ideal subject to explore and write about
Flexibility built in to take advantage of these opportunities.

11. Writing Genres Narrative/ Stories Report Recount
Creative pieces written mainly for entertainment
Mr Grinling makes the lunch.
Report
Describing what things are like
What is a lighthouse?
Instructions/
Procedures
How to do something
How to make an iced sea biscuit.
Explanation
How or why things work or happen
How does my climbing Hamish work?
Persuasion
Convincing others of a particular viewpoint
Letter requesting information about lighthouses
Recount
Retelling events in time and order
Grace Darling

12. Assessment Use capital letters and full stops in most sentences.
Use finger spaces between words.
Spell most common words correctly.
Try to spell unknown words.
Try to write more than one sentence on my own.
Begin to use a variety of joining words.

13. Ways to Support Writing at Home
Read, read and read again!
Shopping lists, forms, name and address
Create characters
Ask the right questions
Where have we been?
Share vocabulary- word of the day, describe your dinner
Every picture tells a story
Finger gym

14. The writing lesson…