I have copied your child’s Big Writing from last week so that you can talk about the different scenes and anything extra that your child would like to add.
(If you have a computer and find any images of the story that your child would like to use please put them onto a CD and your child can use them in the lesson on Thursday).
This is another version of a Cinderella story – please watch this at home with your parents – as the school network will filter this. What are the differences? This will give you an idea of how we will publish our story next week!
Thank you, once again, those of you who have planned and talked with your child. It really is beneficial for their writing development – and I am seeing real progress being made – come and have a look this week! Talking to your child about the task also helps home/school links and enables you to find out what your child is learning in class in the week.
Talk for Writing
This week to round up our unit on Traditional Tales, we are retelling the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. On Thursday the children’s task is to write the story from the point of view of the Troll just like last week’s story of the The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs this story was told from the point of view of the wolf. Brainstorm some ideas for reasons the troll might give for jumping up and how the story might look if told from his point of view… Discuss how they might want to write the troll’s story in a modern setting, just as The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs has done. If you want to borrow the story from last week please come in and I can pass it round to families.
The children will be spending two literacy sessions on this story so they can write a really good story. One session for writing and one session for illustrating. They do not need to write lots – it is more important that what they write is good!
