Wonderful+Writing

Term 2 Week 3

 * WALT link the beginning of our story to the end**

We need to**:**
 * - Start our story with an idea**
 * -Give more details about what happened (practice using some speech marks since we know how)**
 * -End our story with the same idea we used at the beginning**

-remember to tell what someone says in our story -put 2 6's around the first word they said, and 2 9's around the last word they said -tell who said it before or after

Miss Clarke said "this is how you use speech marks properly."

Term 2 Week 1 WALT use speech marks in our writing
We need to: -remember to tell what someone says in our story -put 2 6's around the first word they said, and 2 9's around the last word they said -tell who said it before or after

Miss Clarke said "this is how you use speech marks properly."

Just like in our reading, as we get better, we move up the levels. In order to be able to move up, we need to be able to do each of the things on the list before we can go to the next level. The more we practice and give writing a go, the better we will get! We know that everyone learns things at different rates and speeds and that's okay. God gave some people the gift of being really good at writing, others the gift of being really good at maths and others the gift of being really good at soccer. In Piwakawaka we celebrate our achievement, are thankful for the gifts that God has blessed us with and are proud of ourselves and our classmates for trying our best!

__Level One i__
 * We can hear lots of sounds in words and we write them.
 * We can look for some for some words we need in our dictionaries and copy them into our story.
 * We can try to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences and full stops at the end.
 * We can write a proper sentence that makes sense.

__Level One ii__
 * We can write most of the sounds we hear in words.
 * We can spell some common words all by ourselves.
 * We can find words we can’t spell in our dictionaries or on the word wall.
 * We can consistently use finger spaces, capital letters and full stops in our sentences.
 * I can read my story to my teacher or my friend.
 * My writing makes sense.

__Level One iii__
 * We can write more than 3 sentences that make sense to tell a story.
 * We can make a plan and tell a story in the order that it happened.
 * We can write about our thoughts and feelings.
 * We can make our writing sound like we are talking.
 * We can start with capital letters and finish with full stops.
 * We can use similes and onomatopoeia in our writing.
 * We know that there are different purposes for writing.
 * We can use our dictionaries to find words we don’t know.
 * We can find and fix our own mistakes and add things to make it interesting.

__Level Two i__
 * We can use different beginnings for our sentences.
 * We can write interesting sentences, of different lengths.
 * We can use lots of interesting adjectives, nouns and verbs in our writing.
 * We can proof-read our work, underline some mistakes and correct some of them.
 * We can go back and add more ideas to our writing.
 * We can find words that are spelled wrong and use our dictionaries to help us spell them correctly.
 * We can use question marks and exclamation marks appropriately.