Good+Writers

Room 4 talked about what they think makes a good writer. We came up with these ideas to share with you. These ideas will become our success criteria for being good writers.

A good writer.............

[|Aurora], //"Picks interesting words and ideas."// [|Seth], //"Puts adjectives in their stories."// [|Kate], //"Puts effort into their writing."// [|Chelsea], //"Puts punctuation where it needs to go."// [|Aston], //"Uses their imagination."// [|Paige], //"Makes their stories interesting."// [|Hunter], //"Writes for enjoyment."// [|Gracie], //"Puts a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end."// [|Seth], //"Would use speech marks when someone is talking."// [|Ruby], //"Can make interesting sentences."// [|Logan], //"Would use complex sentences and join ideas together."// [|Ezra], //"Knows when to use correct punctuation."// <span style="color: #0946e3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">[|Kate], //"Uses their success criteria."// <span style="color: #0946e3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">[|Liam], //"Paints a picture in your head."//

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Using modelling of ideas to help create interesting writing - some videos. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Creating interesting text] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Helping the reader get more detail and information - becoming writing detectives. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Writing Detectives] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Using our senses to give more detail. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Using our Senses] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Using our senses in our writing. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Group Writing]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Modelling how to create rich descriptive to add more detail and information. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Descriptive Writing - Setting the Task <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">The Writing Exemplar <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Retelling the Task <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Beginning the Writing <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Conferencing with the Writing Group <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Student Feedback <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Student/Teacher Conferencing <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Helping Students Use the Criteria <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Self Assessment - Finding the Evidence <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Students Sharing Evidence of the Writing Criteria

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">We co-construct ideas for describing the setting. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">We then turn these ideas into rich, descriptive phrases to open our story. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Narratives - Creating Character Descriptions <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Narratives - Making the Characters Come to Life <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Narratives - What Characters Do
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Narratives - Building an opening paragraph **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">We work on creating interesting characters for our story. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Our early character descriptions <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Our ideas for creating interesting characters <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">**Putting our story together** - Using '//moving on//' words. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">FEEDBACK **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Splitting feedback up into smaller parts - "Austin's Butterfly" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">