Writing

Today we finalised our Persuasive writing criteria to help us construct great writing. Here is our criteria template to help guide us in our writing. We created this together from our learning so far this term:
 * __Tuesday 6th November__ **

Sorry for being so slack on these pages - things just seem to be posted to the homepage now ...... Here are some photo's from yesterday's persuasive writing task we did - we were all given different topics and had to decide whether the ideas were for or against and then we had to organise the ideas into a persuasive argument with an introduction, an argument for, an argument against, and then our opinion in a conclusion ...... We have already learnt so much - maybe it is because we are so good at arguing ...... This term we are learning about Persuasive writing - we are very excited about writing to persuade our audience - we are very good at persuading when talking but we will see how we go when we learn to write using persuasive language. Watch this space!
 * __Wednesday 17th October__ **
 * __Tuesday 9th October__ **

**__Monday 13th August__** This term we are reading and writing about Procedures (or instructions). Here is the co-constructed criteria we made. This is what we think should be included in a GREAT procedure. We can't wait to share our writing with you.

**__Thursday 3rd May__** This term we are learning all about Poetry and we have been reading a lot of different types of Poems and recording our findings on our discoveries charts. We will continue to share our learning about Poetry as this term goes by. We have started writing our own poem's using all of our prior knowledge and today we wrote a Poem all about our class - feel free to check some of them out :)

**__Tuesday 20th March__** Week 9 already and time is flying by. We are busy writing our autobiographies! Today for Mind Create (our 5 minute writing topic that we do most mornings) we watched this cool video called Simon's Cat - watch this and challenge someone to continue writing and make up their own story - see what they come up with. Pause the video at 1min 14sec ...... Enjoy and post your writing on your wiki once you have had a go with this - challenge your family! media type="youtube" key="w0ffwDYo00Q" height="315" width="420" **__Thursday 8th March__** We have discovered that we need to get better at editing our writing. We have been learning about how to use a dictionary correctly to find unknown words. We have also been learnnig about the editing codes which help us edit our writing. Today we practised editing our writing, using the codes and making changes to make it more exciting to read. We always use red pen in our books to show what changes we have made - we try not to rub out or delete too much to show our learning. Here are some photos of us during writing today (we worked with Mr Kemp on the mat in small groups as well): **__Monday 5th March__** We have been busy researching what a GREAT autobiography should include and we are excited that we can finally start writing our own. We have written our introductions and are making changes to them at the moment. This week we are getting into the "meaty" part of our autobiographies - when we start writing paragraphs about the important events in our lives .... Stay tuned so we can share our writing with you over the next few weeks :)

**__Wednesday 22nd February__** Check out the discoveries we recorded today on our Mimio Interactive Whiteboard - these are all the things that we think should be included in a GREAT autobiography - this is going to be helpful to make our criteria over the next week or so. If we have missed something - let us know .... **__Mind Create__** Mind Create is a piece of writing that we do every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the start of our day. There is a picture on the whiteboard when we arrive at school. We have 5 minutes to write a story, an advertisement or a poem etc. about the photograph. By Claire

Check out some of our mind create stories so far ....... Mind Create is all about getting ideas on paper and being creative - we are starting to learn to get more ideas onto paper - these are our first stories so please leave us some feedback. These are the editing codes we use when editing our writing in 4K - please encourage these to be used at home with all writing. Mr Kemp is starting to teach us how to use an inquiry approach for parts of our writing programme.

Here is an example of our inquiry writing process

 * 1) First we read examples of a type of genre we are learning about.
 * 2) We find and look for features used in this type of writing.
 * 3) Next we make a 'test' criteria for what we think makes a **//__GREAT__//** piece of writing.
 * 4) We then test our criteria out by using a cross classification chart (tick chart). [[image:http://weareroom8.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png caption="external image msword.png" link="http://weareroom8.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Cross+Classification+-+Fairy+Tales.doc"]][| Cross Classification - Fairy Tales.doc] - here is an example.
 * 5) After we have tested our criteria we have finally discovered what makes a **//__GREAT__//** piece of writing.
 * 6) We use this to make our own criteria and these are the things we focus on during our writing process [[image:http://weareroom8.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png caption="external image msword.png" link="http://weareroom8.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Final+Marking+Criteria+for+a+GREAT+Fairy+Tale.doc"]][| Final Marking Criteria for a GREAT Fairy Tale.doc] - here is an example of a final marking criteria sheet.
 * 7) Once we reach the writing process we follow the picture below.
 * 8) Here are the sheets that we use when author circling (reading and assessing each others writing to make it better). You will learn how to Author Circle (see below) which will make sure we are helping each other make our writing BETTER and more exciting to read. Our new Author Circle Routines are here:
 * Person being shared to - [[file:Author Circling prompts 1 (2).doc]]
 * Person sharing - [[file:Author Circling prompts 2 (2).doc]]


 * //__Here is a photo of our writing process - you can find this on the side wall of our classroom.__//**