Improving Your Child’s Writing

Longfield Primary SchoolHiral Kelly

Talking Exploring different texts

Speaking

Role Play

Adventure

Games Boggle

Taboo

Story Telling

Sentence Games

Poetry

I spy (with a difference)

Games- Sentence Game:

- write a noun / verb – fold over the piece of paper- Write an adjective- Open up the paper – now create a sentence- Fastest / funniest / silliest wins

I spy (with a difference) : - Choose an object to describe.- Set a limit of how many adjectives you are allowed to

use- Use adjectives to describe the object- 1st person to guess the object correctly wins

Opportunities to Write Lists

Letters / Postcards / Emails

Treasure Hunt

Paint / clay / chalk

Imagination Outings

Exploring

Story Telling

Developing Vocabulary Different variations to: said, nice,

went

Using vocabulary everyday

Correcting spoken English

Using a child friendly dictionary / thesaurus

Burger Writing

The boy

is playing football.

•Encourage your child to fill the burger e.g. ., with his friends,

Punctuation

Writing Levels 1- 2

Writing Levels 2 -3

Websites BBC schools www.topmarks.co.uk/

www.literacyshed.com www.crickweb.co.uk › www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk www.ictgames.com/literacy.html