KS1 Writing

KS2 Writing

Key Word Games

Children play games to help them learn their key words.

Guided Reading

Throughout the school children read in small groups with an adult to focus on specific reading skills.

Story Maps

The children used this visual aid ( a story map) along with specific actions to retell the story of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'.

Freeze frames

Individual children or groups represent characters at a significant moment. Sequential frames can be used to represent the key events in a story.

Glove Puppets and Shadow Theatre

Children use puppets to make and tell stories. children can reflect on their use of language and voices.

Telephone conversations

Children act in role of characters from a story for example. Usually done back to back, children could be asked to pass on information, discuss a problem or describe an event.

Hot Seating

Hot seating involves the calss in asking questions of someone in role as a character, fictional or historical who sits in the 'hot seat'.

Barrier games - giving and receiving instructions.

Children sit back to back. One child (speaker) gives clear information/ explicit instructions to the listener. The listener has to ask questions to help understanding and gain information. For example, speaker has to describe object, picture, character or setting that the listener has to draw. Alternatively a speaker can give directions from one map while the listener draws the route on a blank version of the same map.

Conscience Alley

This involves one child in role as a particular character walks down the 'alley'. Children voice the character's thoughts for and against a particular decision or action the character is facing, acting as his/her conscience.