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Puppets
Juniors - Sock and hand puppets
Making puppets based on stories, from paper
Telling stories, e.g. the princess and the frog, with puppets as a basis for writing.
Wellbeing - encouraging, calming, “freeing thoughts”
Oral language - children telling/making up their own stories with the puppets, using expression in their
voice, communicate well with puppets as it’s not a real person so they don’t feel fear talking to it.
“You have to know your puppet” - it needs its own personality.
Struggling writers:
1. They tell you their sentence several times.
2. They tell it again, you count the number of words together.
3. Put lines down on the page for the number of words.
4. Can even put down the starting sound for writers who really struggle!
5. Chln write their sentence.
This way, they know how many words they have to write - an achievable goal!
Non-stop writing
Ss write any words that come into their heads without stopping. Start with 30 seconds, increase time as
necessary. Lets Ss know they do have all of these words/ideas in their heads, they just need to practise
getting them to make sense.
Words on plastic display that can sit on the table, much easier for
struggling writers to look at than something on the board. Write
on it with a whiteboard marker.
Word Tennis
Use the sound of the week, e.g. “st”, in pairs they come up with
as many words using that sounds as possible back and forth.
Writing
Writing progression is from ideas in the head, to spoken words, to a written message.
Children need to learn to be storytellers.
HIghlighted thick line: short letters stay within the highlighted section, tall letters go above the line, letters
with a tail go below it:
Blob of blue tack to get the correct spacing between the words
Breaking existing neural pathways and creating new ones - takes time!
Expectations: “That’s a fast neat word that you know how to write.” so that children don’t take too long.
Teach confusing letters/sounds/words in isolation. E.g. don’t teach the b and the d together if there is
confusion, teach them in isolation.