Writing Spring 2

Stanley's Stick

Stanley's stick is not just a stick. With a stick in hand, Stanley's options are endless - he flies to the moon, writes in the sand, goes fishing, plays a whistle and rides a dinosaur - and his imagination takes over and the magic begins.

Main Outcome: Own narrative version

Lost and Found

From the rising star of children’s picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy… and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole. But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn’t what the penguin was looking for after all.

Main Outcome: Lost/Found narrative

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