A big highlight was attending Jill Eggleton's Course relating to teaching writing. We are excited about how we will teach writing this year to improve the language and quality of work. Jill made it clear that as teachers we should be focusing less on Text Types and more on short pieces writing focusing on specific skills.
So far this term we have taught alliteration, metaphors, onomatopoeia and sentence hooks. We have incorporated these skills into recount writing through responding to picture prompts and video clips.
We have noticed that we have changed the language that we are using in the classroom e.g crafting and re crafting.
Our next steps are to
- retain a socio-cultural environment (this will be a research focus)
- publishing and giving an audience to our writing
- take advantage of writing opportunities e.g. being Part of Get NZ Writing. We showcased Team Moana's work in assembly.
