Year 3 and 4 Parents’ English Workshop Au Autumn umn 20 2014 14
Today’s Workshop • To give you an overview of the English Curriculum • To share with you how English is taught at St Joseph’s • To develop your understanding of writing vocabulary • To give you ideas for supporting your child’s reading and writing development at home.
Achievement • At St Joseph’s we have and achieve high standards • Our students make accelerated progress • For the second year running, St Joseph’s is in the top 1% of schools nationally for our value added score.
New Curriculum • New National Curriculum was introduced this school year • Expectations have been raised • We trialled parts of the new Curriculum throughout the summer term of the last school year • Changes to the use of levels to assess students.
Key Stage 2 • In KS2, the students learn to change the way they speak and write to suit different situations, purposes and audiences. • They plan, compose and edit their writing to improve their work • They develop longer fiction and non-fiction writing through extended writing across different subject areas • They read in a range of contexts across all subject areas.
Government Guidelines The curriculum outlines these areas for the teaching of writing: • Planning and drafting • Composition • Punctuation • Spelling • Handwriting and presentation
What do these terms mean to you? Planning and drafting - write notes, develop ideas, change ideas, proofread, discuss and evaluate their own and other’s writing. Composition – the writing process; developing sentences; using ‘wow words’ or ambitious vocabulary; using different sentence openers and connectives; showing the features of the text.
The types of texts students write in Year 3 and Year 4 Fictio ction Non Non-Fi Fictio ction stories reports plays recounts poems explanations diary entries instructions letters persuasive recounts arguments
The Key Skills Words VCOP V ocabulary Sentences C onnectives O peners Texts P unctuation
Words/Vocabulary Jack tidied his room. In this sentence can you name the nouns? verb?
Vocabulary Jack tidied his room . noun – who/what
Vocabulary Jack tidied his room. verb – doing word / action
Vocabulary Jack carefully tidied his room. adverb – describes the verb
Vocabulary Jack carefully tidied his messy room. adjective – describing word
Vocabulary nouns verbs adjectives adverbs
Vocabulary
Words to sentences Building interesting sentences: - different sentence starters - connectives - vary the length and structure - punctuation
Sentences Connectives
Sentences Add a connective: Jack carefully tidied his room because he had lost the tv remote.
Sentences Sentence starters:
Sentences Sentence starters: Without even being asked , Jack carefully tidied his room.
Sentences Vary the length: Jack carefully tidied his room. His mother nearly fainted in shock. Jack carefully tidied his room because his mother had discovered a nest of vicious rats were living in his underwear drawer.
Sentences Punctuation
Sentences Punctuation: Jack carefully tidied his room, as he was eager to keep his parents happy.
Texts - Features of different text types - Paragraphs - Author’s techniques and language styles
Writing Assessment National Averages End d Ye Year r 3 2A/ A/3C End d Ye Year r 4 3B 3B End Year 5 3A/4C End Year 6 4B
Marking At St Joseph’s we use these marking codes: Sp You have mis-spelt a word You have missed a P punctuation mark Check your grammar. G Does it make sense? Green Pen Question – GPQ Answer the question with a green pen Next Steps – Read these carefully.
Feedback • We have a whole school marking policy which ensure children receive daily feedback and opportunities to extend their learning • Every lesson has a clear LO and success criteria which give students clear steps to achieve the outcome • Children respond to marking by answering GPQs and understanding the next steps in their learning.
Handwriting At St Joseph’s we develop children’s handwriting joins with a ªc[u[rã[i[¹Ö ¡]c[ri[p[t ¡[t[Ò¯e. All letters, except capitals, ¡[t]a[Œt í›om ¶t[«e ¶l[i[±e . Capital letters do not join. Letters ó ªü ¶h ¶þ have a ‘tail loop’
Handwriting In your English pack, you have a copy of the St Joseph handwriting letters. ªa ¶b ªc ªd â ó ªü ¶h ¶i ¶ý ¶„ ¶l ¶m ¶n ª‹ ¶p ªq ¶r ¡ ¶t ¶u ¶v ¶w ¶ ˆ ¶þ ¶z How does your own handwriting compare?
Reading Strategies
How you can help! The success of children’s reading and writing is based on • a rich talking environment • experience of many stories that have been read to them • being able to join in with stories and add their own ideas • children being engaged in a range of speaking a listening activities • Reading opportunities in any situation
How you can help! • Enjoy books! • Tell them stories! Read together. Listen to them read. • Visit the library • Listen to audio books; discuss interesting television shows and documentaries • Encourage your child to retell their stories to you • Ask your child their opinion on important real-world issues.
How you can help! • Experience the world – visit your free, local, world-class museums and talk about everything you see. • Tell jokes! • Make up riddles and poems • Find real writing opportunities that engage your child – letters, emails, invitations, shopping lists, microwave instructions, oven instructions. • Celebrate the written word!
Thank you for attending our Parents’ English Workshop
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