Writing for Audience and Purpose

Autumn term has started brilliantly with a focus on quality writing sequences that focus the children’s writing for audience and purpose. Teachers have a clear understanding on how to plan and deliver lessons that engages the children in a diverse high quality text where they are able to make meaningful writing decisions linked to who the audience is and what the purpose of the writing is. Children make connections to the text as they can see themselves in the characters and are able to write in a similar style to that author.

Using Themes in EYFS for development

EYFS are focusing on a community theme this term. They have read books linked to their topic like ‘Emergency: People who help us’ and ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing’ which has led to them create junk model emergency vehicles to practice their fine motor skills and improve their writing. They have put themselves in role and written words from the story they read using their segmenting and phonics knowledge. To further develop their fine motor skills they engaged in activities like cutting, sticking and painting scenes of our world from the stories the are reading.

Creating engagement with characters in Year 2

In Year 2 they started the year reading ‘In Our Hands’ where children engaged with the illustrations and made predictions about what they thought would happen. Through empathising with the characters and conducting role play they were able to write their own pledges on how they would help our world. They went on to read ‘Traction Man’ where they created a villain to write their own comic strip. This gave them ownership over the story and through carefully planned activities they were able to write with purpose making the writing more meaningful to the children.

Creative writing and literary technique in Year 3

Year 3 have plunged into a fantastic story called ‘Milo Imagines the World’. This is a new writing sequence for Year 3 where they are able to become authors and write their own version of what Milo imagines. Here is the first paragraph of a child applying all the grammar skills they have focused on when looking at the author's style - expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and onomatopoeia - including structuring our writing in a similar way.

Emulation of an authors prose in Year 6

Progression is shown in Year 6 through the level of authorial choice the children have. They are able to emulate the style of Michelle Magorian’s Goodnight Mister Tom after conducting close up studies of the text using text marking and practising her grammatical choices. Asking, ‘What were the options here?’ ‘What is the impact of those choices on the reader?’ Children wrote a narrative from another character’s point of view, giving them ownership of the story.