Aims of today:
•To provide you with support to help your child
with their writing at home.
•To show you how you can help your child to
improve their writing.
•To give you some ideas in how to get your
child to write at home.
4 key things to think about when
writing.
•Vocabulary
•Connectives
•Openers
•Punctuation
Activity 1:
Choose a picture and write it down.
E.g. The mouse.
Now let’s make it more interesting:
Add an adjective
E.g. The brown mouse.
Or make it a 2A sentence with 2 adjectives
E.g. The furry brown mouse.
Now let’s make it even more interesting:
Add an another adjective (A list sentence)
E.g. The little, furry, brown mouse.
*don’t forget the commas
Now let’s make it really interesting:
Turn it into a 4A sentence
The little, furry mouse was on the large, red bus.
•Make the adjectives interesting.
•Use a variety of different adjectives.
•Good opportunity to introduce children to new
vocabulary and ambitious words.
Openers
Temporal connectives : (Time connectives)
First, Then, Next, Later, Finally, Just at that moment
‘ly’ and ‘ing’ openers (adverb, verb openers)
Suddenly, Walking, Jumping,
Quickly walking, Nervously waiting,
Story Openers
Once upon a time,
Long, long ago
Connectives
‘and’
Joining 2 sentences together.
We went to the sweet shop and we bought some chocolate.
BOYS sentences
But, yet, or, so
We were going to go to the park but it started to rain.
We could play football or we could play on the swings.
It started to rain so we came inside.
Punctuation
Activity 2: Make a great
sentence including VCOP.
Opener
Vocabulary
Connective
Punctuation
First
enormous
and
.
Next
gigantic
but/yet
Just at that
moment
impeccable
Suddenly
Quickly running
Excitedly
skipping
magnificent
?
or
anxious
so
gorgeous
because
however
,
!
“ “
Sentence Types in Year 2
Only focus on 3.
• Ing ly
• The more, the more
• 2 pair
The more, the more…
Expresses 2 things that vary together.
Teach it as a feeling leading to an action/ or an
action leading to a feeling.
e.g.
The more angry she felt, the more she banged her
fists on the table.
The more he ran, the more out of breathe he
began to feel.
2 pair sentence
2 pairs of related adjectives
Allows children to use a range of adjectives to
describe how a character is feeling/looks like
e.g.
Scared and upset, tearful and worried, she ran
away from the bullies.
Euphoric and delighted, amused and jubilant, she
giggled at the magician.
Startled and shocked, excited and joyous, she won
her game of football.
Boxing clever
How can I get my child to
write at home?
• Postcards
•Letters (from you, family, characters – write a
reply)
•Text messages
•Emails
•Stories
•Recounts
•Poems
•Songs/raps
•Invitations/cards
Other tips and ideas
•Talk Talk Talk – If a child can speak a
sentence, then they can write it.
•Use ideas from the children’s
experience to help them in their
writing.