Showing posts with label Recount writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recount writing. Show all posts

Monday, 27 July 2009

Walking the Talk: Day One 'Computer Lab'

For the next nine weeks I am teaching one day a week in a school in South Auckland. I am working with 4 different Year 6 classes running lab sessions. I have started a Year 6 wiki for them and the main concentration is going to be on the children's writing and publishing.
Day One
Introduction of me and my expectations for the next nine weeks.
What are the rules?


Look at our Wikipage.











Practice our typing.


Play a Spelling game or Typing game.
Find a Recount we have already typed into Pages.











Make a Wordle of it. The students had to learn lots of skills for this activity, how to move between Pages and an Internet Page, keyboard shortcut keys such as Command-A to select all, Command-C to copy, Command-V to paste.
They also had to learn how to do a screen capture to save to the desktop, Shift-Command-4. They took a screen capture of their Wordle and uploaded into their Wikipage,

Wordle
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Recount Writing

Following on from the last post about Explanation writing here are my versions of Recount Writing for Seniors and Juniors

Recount Presentation
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Junior Recount
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Sunday, 16 March 2008

Recount Writing




Jack's Year 5/6 Class are writing recounts at the moment. Some of the children are using a recount framework created in Inspiration






The structure of the template guides the children through writing an introduction (with notes reminding them about Where, when, why, how etc). The body part of the template has notes attached with examples of 'vigorous verbs', 'awesome adjectives' and good examples of starters for sentences and linking sentence words. Finally the conclusion box reminds the writer how to finish their recount.