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Literacy and ICT
Fd Dg assessed timed essay Writing & Literacy in KS2
12
English
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2012

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Term

For which particular groups is improving writing and reducing the gap between attainment in reading and writing a significant challenge? 
Definition

 

Raising the attainment of boys in writing

 Addressing underperformance in writing for individuals

Groups of targeted children, SEN/EAL etc 

Term



Can writing be taken in isolation? 
 
Definition




Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing are all linked they enhance one another. 

Term

 

What are the main differences between spoken and written language?

Definition
written language has:
No immediate context
No use of intonation or stress
More structural rules
A fixed, not transient form
A much slower production of meaning
 
Term

 

What did Graves (1983) suggest were the main stages in learning to write?

Definition
Plan,
Draft,
Revise/Redraft
Proof-read?Edit
Present work/Publish
a direct reflection of the process approach, and this is sustained in the National Literacy Strategy (DfEE, 1998). “
 
Term

 

Name 3 relevant messages about writing devleopment from research

Definition
Refs: Bissex(1980),Harste, Woodward & Burke(1984)

Given access to adult models of how writing is done, many children figure out lots of rules for themselves
Adults can speed up this process using direct teaching but mustn’t lose sight that children have a need to communicate and this is one medium
 

Close examination of children’s writing can give teachers insight into the rules employed and can therefore affect the future teaching 

Term

 

 

Name the 4 stages of writing development

Definition
1.1. Beginning writing
2.
2.2. Learning to encode
3.
3.3. Extending written forms
 
4.  Writing to learn
Term

 

 

Name 2 ways children show progression in writing

Definition
1.
……From showing a desire to communicate through writing……….
 
 
…..to using appropriate terminology when discussing grammar, spelling and punctuation 
Term

 

How does guided reading support improvement in wirting?

Definition

 

Develops the learners ability to understand the written text through key areas such as

writers view point

understanding reasons for chossen language / vocabulalry

supports the learner in assessing deeper meaning in text

this knowledge can then be applied to Guided Writing

 

Term

 

Name an important document in relation to national curriculum literacy

Definition

Improving writing with a focus on Guided writing
Department Children Schools & FamiliesSept 2007 
You can find it at:-
http://www.teachfind.com/national-strategies/improving-writing-focus-guided-writing-leading-improvement-using-primary-framework
 
Term

 

Name some different types of narrative text

Definition

 

Mystery writing, adventure story, science fiction, fantasy, myths and legends, dilema, dialogue, fairy tales etc

Term

 

Name different types of

non-fiction writing

Definition

 

Discussion texts, Explanatory texts, Instructional texts, Persuasion texts,
Non-chronological reports and Recounts
 
Term

 

 

Name different types of poetry

Definition

 

 

Free verse, structured poems and visual poems

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