Writing goals

This week we looked at the a piece of writing that showed us the Year 4 standard. We had to identify the parts of the writing that showed us each of the following things:
Vocabulary
Punctuation
Personal voice
Ideas
Spelling
Language features
Sentence structure

We also talked about planning and editing our writing. Then we chose one of these areas to focus on as our writing goal. Check out these examples we made using the Explain Everything app on the iPads.

These are the areas we will be focusing on for writing over the term. They are also displayed on the wall in our classroom.

 

 

WALT: Begin our writing with a super starter

Today we practiced beginning our story with a time and then give the reader clues about where we might be and what we are doing.

It was 10:40 AM. Oops I dropped my present but, I am soooooo excited.’’ OK I will put these socks on and then we can jump????? ‘’I asked happily. “ No, first the instructor will tell us the safety rules and THEN we can jump.’’ Rosie said calmly. So the instructor told us the safety rules and then we walked through the corridor and every one with green bands stormed up the stairs and started jumping. ‘’WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ‘’ I yelled as I slipped off the rope into the foam pit. ‘’That was fun!!!

By Hannah

Declan thought the "weeeeeeeee" part was really funny
Sora noticed that she used lots of punctuation.
Miss Hopkins thought she gave the reader really great clues about what she was doing.