Literacy

Writing in the Upper School @KPPS

As a parent, when we think of writing, we tend to think about handwriting and spelling, but writing is so much more than that! 

In the early years of school, students are taught to apply their knowledge of sounds to print (spelling) and construct sentences that convey a message or an idea. These sentences comprise of many conventional elements such as full stops, capital letters and grammatical elements such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, clauses, compound sentences, just to name a few!

As students move towards the middle years of school, their understanding of writing changes to more genre based instruction and students are given opportunities to apply what they know about grammar and conventions to these genres and writing forms.

In the upper years, students continue to develop their writing abilities by building on their morphological understanding of words through word origins and use of complex language to enhance the meaning of texts. Students independently work through the stages of writing to hold themselves accountable throughout the Writer’s Workshop. 

These pictures are from some of the grade 5 and 6 classrooms at our school and demonstrate the learning that is happening within the classrooms in the area of writing.