Writing  

In writing, we have been learning how to write persuasive texts. The purpose of a persuasive text is to convince your audience to agree with, or understand, your opinion or point of view. We are learning about the structure of a persuasive writing piece which includes: An introduction where the opinion for or against the argument is stated, this is then followed by three paragraphs where the reasons supporting the argument are stated and then restating the argument in a conclusion. 

At the sentence level, the students have been learning about the four different sentence types, subordinating conjunctions and using high modality words to persuade our reader.

In our Spelling sessions, students are focusing on short and long vowel sounds, silent final ‘e’ and suffixes such as -ish, -ure and -ive. Our Grammar focus has looked at differentiating between common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns and identifying them in sentences. Identifying nouns and verbs, writing a statement, question, exclamation and command for a given topic and identifying adjectives and adverbs in sentences. 

Each week students have time and opportunity to engage in a 20-minute touch typing skill session through Typing Club. All students have access to their own computer and, through this web-based educational platform, are learning about proper finger positioning and improving their typing speed and accuracy.