Big Write

Talk for Writing

We ask the children to write independently to show us how their skills are developing.  They have such a lot to remember: spellings, handwriting, punctuation, sentence structure!  It really helps the children if they come to this lesson with good ideas of what to write.

Please have a chat about the picture below. Try to ask questions to help them to write sentences about what they see, what they may hear or do if they were there.  Some ideas would be: 

Where are they going?  Where are they from?  Can you tell me about the dragon?  What is it's name?  Who is the girl?  Would you like to meet a dragon?  What is this dragon like?