Guided Writing - A progression of skills in the Early Years.

1. Use of toy bags, photos or pictures as a prompt. Shared pen for writing letters in words or sight words. Focus on oral language development.

2. Use of same prompts with shared pen to write sentences. Focus on say a sentence, write a sentence.

3. Move to structure of a text type. Shared ideas. Oral work. Own writing or paired writing from generated ideas.

4. Closer study of writing techniques using students work and peer feedback to strengthen written work collaboratively. Focus on structure and cohesion of ideas of a text type.

Dates: 4/8, 1/9, 15/9, 27/10

It is encouraged that teachers attend all 4 sessions as they are designed for continuity. You will need to book into each session individually.