Writing workshop: Rita Palmer
First lesson –
Year 4
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How important is the reader
(To get the message
across)
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Sentence types –the importance
of sentence types
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Short sentences – messages.
Creating meaning and impact. Adding in simple sentences after long phrases to
clearly identify the messaged being portrayed.
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For example: use snippets of
writing and look at why there is a short or one word phrase at the end of a
long sentence. Write one together and then get students to write their own.
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Give the students paragraphs to
highlight the importance of the message
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Why we write
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The reader – the importance of
the reader
What?
So what?
Now what?
Second lesson -
Year 5/6
Hello Ocean – Picture Book
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Personification
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Discuss how important is the
reader –getting a message across
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Brainstorm human traits - things
humans do (walk, talk, explain, whisper, sing, run, jump, march etc.)
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Introduce personifications
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Underline person
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Ask if anyone can define what a
personification is
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Write a sentence – “the trees
whispered in the wind”
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Giving a object a personal
trait
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Discuss the purpose, the
message – what the sentence makes the reader think / see/ imagine
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Use a picture book to highlight
one paragraph / sentence that illustrates the purpose of the lesson
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Students write their own
personification sentences describing what type of day it is
Simile
work:
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Introduce the lesson with a
discussion about similes
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What is a simile? What is the
purpose?
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Discuss the importance of the
reader and getting across the message (continuously reiterate this point)
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Explain and create a discussion
regarding the importance of precise similes
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Use a book with a simile; get
the children to finish the simile and cover the original simile with a
post-it-note.
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“” Continue looking at two or
three more examples
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Recap with what? So what? Now
what?
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