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Fun Writing – K & Year 1

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Fun Writing - Kindy & Year 1

Course Settings

  • Target Age: Foundation, Year 1

  • Class Duration: 45 minutes

  • Class Format: Online teaching

  • Curriculum: Closely follows the NSW syllabus

  • Language of Instruction: Full English instruction, seamlessly connecting with primary school classrooms

  • Class Size: Small group teaching, maximum of 6 students

  • After-school Activity: Daily writing practice to enhance writing ability

Stages of Children’s English Writing Development

  • 01 Scribble Stage: Starting point any place on the page

  • 02 Scribble: Left to right progression

  • 03 Mock Letters: Can be personal or conventional

  • 04 Letter String: Left to right and progressively downward (progressing from capital to lowercase letters)

  • 05 Groups of letters: Groups of letters with space in between to resemble words

  • 06 Picture Labeling: Matching beginning letter to sound

  • 07 Copies Environmental Print: Copying surrounding text and graphics

  • 08 First Letter Representation: Use the first letter of a word to represent the word

  • 09 Beginning & Ending Letters: Uses beginning letter and ending letter to represent the word

  • 10 Medial Sounds: Hears medial sounds (written words include first, middle, and last letters)

  • 11 Phrase Writing: Writing short phrases

  • 12 Whole Sentence Writing: Writing complete sentences


Course content

Writing Readiness

  • Fundamental Skills: 

    • Tripod gripping (How to hold pencil properly)

    • Handwriting: Letters and numerals formation

    • Finger spaces

    • Write from left to right

  • Sight words & High Frequency Words: Master sight words and high frequency words, including how to spell and how to use.

Descriptive Language

  • Adjectives: I saw a dog. I saw a fluffy dog.

  • Adverbs: She walked in. She walked in quietly.

  • Adverbial Phrases/Clause: They danced. They danced under the moonlight.

  • Adjectival Phrases/Clause: He waved his hand. With a smiling face, he waved his hand.

Figurative Language Features

  • Metaphor: She is a ray of sunshine.

  • Simile: He runs as fast as a cheetah.

  • Personification: The grass tickled my feet.

  • Alliteration: We are respectful and responsible students.

  • Hyperbole: I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!

  • Onomatopoeia: BANG! She slammed the door.

  • Idiom: The test was a piece of cake.

Vocabulary

  • Synonyms: 

    • The house is big. The house is massive/huge/gigantic.

    • I feel happy. I feel thrilled/terrific/pleased.

    • She walked into her bedroom. She tiptoed into her bedroom.

  • High/Medium/Low Modality Words in Persuasive Writing:

    • High: You MUST stop littering!

    • Medium: You SHOULD walk to school, so you get fit.

    • Low: It is DOUBTFUL that people will stop using plastic bags.

  • Prefix and Suffix:

    • Prefix: resend, unhappy, impossible

    • Suffix: happily, teacher, happiness

Structure

  • Various Openers: 

    • Today, I …

    • I believe that …

    • I have learnt that …

  • Sizzling Starts: 

    • Oh no!

    • I heard a loud bang!

    • Guess what I can see there?

  • Coordinating Conjunctions: FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)

  • Subordinating Conjunctions: I SAW A WABUB (if, since, as, when, although, while, after, before, until, because)

  • Time Connectives: meanwhile, first, second, next, then, finally, last, eventually, after a while, soon afterwards

  • Story Plot:

    • Orientation (Characters, Setting)

    • Problem (What is the problem of this story?)

    • Resolution (How is the problem solved?)

    • Ending (How is the story finished?)

Writing Types

  • Narrative Writing: Recount, imaginative story, poem

  • Persuasive Writing: Opinion, argument, persuasive letter

  • Informative Writing: Recipe, information report, procedure

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