Overview of Scoil Mhuire Writing Plan: Year 1: Formal Year 2: Formal Revise Revise ’13,’15, ’17, ’19, ‘21 ’12, ’14, ’16, ’18, ‘20 Narrative Recount Recount Narrative Procedural Explanation Explanation Procedural Persuasive Report Report Persuasive (exposition) (exposition) Writing … and Free Introduction of a new genre: The formal teaching of one individual genre will take place over 6-8 weeks during each term, while the genres taught in the previous year will be recapped on and revised. The suggested structure for teaching a new genre is: Week 1: Familiarisation showing the children lots of examples of this genre – Discovery (direct model) engaging in focussed talk and discussion, questioning, etc. – Teacher models (teacher writes their own sample of that genre using their own ideas, not the children’s) Week 2: Familiarisation Discovery (analysing text) - breaking down the etc. text into it’s various subheadings, Teacher models highlighting the structure, the language features, grammar and so on. – Week 3: Modelled writing Shared writing teacher writes the – children’s ideas Week 4:
Overview of Scoil Mhuire Writing Plan: Year 1: Formal ’13,’15, ’17, ’19, ‘21 Revise Year 2: Formal ’12, ’14, ’16, ’18, ‘20 Revise Recount Explanation Report Narrative Procedural Persuasive (exposition) Narrative Procedural Persuasive (exposition) Recount Explanation Report … and Free Writing Introduction of a new genre: The formal teaching of one individual genre will take place over 6-8 weeks during each term, while the genres taught in the previous year will be recapped on and revised. The suggested structure for teaching a new genre is: Week 1: Familiarisation – showing the children lots of examples of this genre Discovery (direct model) – engaging in focussed talk and discussion, questioning, etc. Teacher models (teacher writes their own sample of that genre using their own ideas, not the children’s) Week 2: Familiarisation Discovery (analysing text) - breaking down the text into it’s various subheadings, etc. Teacher models – highlighting the structure, the language features, grammar and so on. Week 3: Modelled writing Shared writing – teacher writes the children’s ideas Week 4:
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