Years Five/Six News

The 5/6 students have been working incredibly hard on their writing over the past five weeks, and have been recording their writing in their writer's notebooks.

A writer's notebook is a tool students used to record the things they notice, observe, and think about. Each recording is called an 'entry'. The entries can be any of a variety of ideas or anything we have been learning about in the classroom.

Some things we have been focusing on over the past few weeks have been showing, not telling, planning for success and up-levelling our writing by banning the boring bits. 

Show, Don't Tell 

Show don't tell describes writing in various forms with an emphasis on using and showing actions in order to convey the emotions you want readers to interpret, which creates a better experience for readers, instead of writing to tell what happened.

Plan For Success

Planning for success is an important aspect of writing a great story. Planning is useful because it can help students to organise their thoughts and guide them through their writing.

Uplevelling

To 'uplevel' a sentence is to make a boring sentence interesting by including more advanced grammatical features like figurative language, onomatopoeias, different connectives and openers, and adjectives, to name a few.

We hope you have enjoyed looking at and learning about writing in 5/6!