Big+Write+1



The information below can be easily copied and then pasted into the Word version - copy each row separately and then paste into the appropriate row.

Familiarisation / Capturing ideas / Modelled writing / Shared writing / Supported writing / Independent writing || ** Sentence level (VCOP) ** Focus on listing / naming punctuation marks (inc. use of punctuation pyramid) |||| ** Word level (inc. phonics) ** || ** Resources / texts ** Extract from Harry Potter The Monster story opening Big Writing Games CD-ROM || |||||| ** Should ** |||| ** Could ** ||
 * ** Year ** 2008/09
 * Class **
 * Teacher ** || ** Term ** 1
 * Week ** 1
 * W/b ** 8.9.08
 * Unit ** |||| ** Text level objectives: **
 * Focuses for this phase: **
 * ** Curricular targets – reading ** |||| ** Must **
 * ** Curricular targets – writing ** |||| |||||| |||| ||


 * Using lesson plans from Ros Wilson's book 'Strategies for Immediate Impact on Writing Standards'.
 * Register (free) on Fiery Ideas (http://www.fieryideas.com) to be able to use Big Writing Timer.
 * The Big Writing Games CD-ROM has all the texts ('RSIW Lesson Materials') with ability to highlight VCOP, but could be a bit fiddly to alter size of highlighter and uses different colour scheme to our school display - you could use this but use colours as school display (V = blue, O = green, C = yellow, P = red). Alternatively, use Word or Notebook version and highlight using highlight tool on Word or highlighter pen on Notebook.

WALT to improve sentences using VCOP Explain homework and that it will help children with their writing tomorrow. Children copy homework into homework diary. ||
 * Thursday**
 * Range of punctuation - children name / you record on board. Ask volunteers to come out and illustrate examples name. Connectives - children name / you record on board. Give several pairs of sentences; ask pupils to record the connective they would use on a white board. || Read extract from Harry Potter in pairs. Spot the differences - discuss what makes second excerpt a 'higher level' than first. Identify range of punctuation and connectives. Use to remind children about VCOP. Show punctuation pyramid ('Electronic Punctuation Pyramid' on Ros Wilson's Big Writing Games CD-ROM); identify levels and explain. Name together every item of punctuation. || Give level 2 sentence on board; children work in pairs to rewrite at higher level on white board. (Could use 'Up Level It!' activity on Ros Wilson's Big Writing Games CD-ROM.) Discuss and identify interesting exampels of VCOP. Select ideas and model composite on board. Name this 'up-levelling'.
 * Must || Should || Could ||
 * Homework:** Draw a monster. Make it as scary as possible. Think of at least 5 interesting words to describe the monster.



WALT to continue a story using VCOP Use IWB version of 'My Target Record' to explain how it works - relate to VCOP. || Stick 'My Target Record' on first page of big writing books. (Also need writing curricular targets sheet stuck inside front cover).
 * Friday**
 * Challenge pupils to memorise the first 3 or 4 rows of the punctuation pyramid. Use 'Electronic Punctuation Pyramid' on Ros Wilson's Big Writing Games CD-ROM and challenge the pupils to say what each punctuation mark is before they reveal it. || Read extract 'The Monster'. Pupils work in pairs to identify elements of VCOP using highlighters (use display to co-ordinate colours) - model first. Share likes / dislikes about the passage and talk about suspense. Record interesting / ambitious words on board. || Explain how writing will be 'assessed'. Review learning on VCOP. Review against WALT. If time, listen to some children read a sentence from their story which includes at least two different types of punctuation - rest of class guess what punctuation was used.
 * Less able supported by scaffold, modelled words / phrases, adult support or working in a pair. || In big writing books, pupils stick in 'The Monster' extract and write next paragraphs to continue the story, copying the style of the writing. Use Big Writing Timer from Fiery Ideas website (http://www.fieryideas.com/freebies.php?id=34) to create calm atmosphere. Stop after 10 mins and aks who has used more than one type of punctuation, an interesting sentence opener, more than two different connectives or an interesting word. Praise. Continue for further 10 minutes (or more if productive). || Could ||