Writing Spring 1

Beegu

Beegu is not supposed to be on Earth. She is lost. She is a friendly little creature, but the Earth People don't seem very welcoming at all. However, so far she has only met the BIG ones. The little ones are a different matter...

Main Outcome: Own narrative version

The Odd Egg

All the birds have eggs to hatch. All except Duck. When Duck is delighted to find an egg of his own to look after: it's the most beautiful egg in the whole world! But all the other birds think it's a very odd egg indeed - and everyone's in for a big surprise when it finally hatches.

Main Outcome: Egg Spotter's Guide - non-fiction

Vocabulary, Grammar & Punctuation

• Suffixes that can be added to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words (e.g. helping, helped, helper)

• How words can combine to make sentences

• Joining words and joining clauses using and

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

• Separation of words with spaces

• Introduction to capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification [for example, the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon]

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Commas to separate items in a list

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name]

• Capital letters for names and the personal pronoun

Writing (Composition)

• Saying out loud what they are going to write about

• Composing a sentence orally before writing it

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

• Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense

• Discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils