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Writing Club: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Year 4 FLEX)

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Ages 7-12
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In this five-week FLEX class students will learn how to write a top-quality essay featuring descriptive and powerful adjectives, adverbs, similes, alliteration, conjunctions, vocabulary and more.
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Class Experience

US Grade 2 - 5
Writing can often seem daunting and so often an entire writing piece or story is the major outcome of a writing lesson. This is where I believe a change needs to happen. In order for students to feel confident in their writing they need to feel equipped with techniques, tools and ideas to create a successful sentence. Writing is made up of many sentences. Once a learner is confident in various writing techniques, they can apply this to any story or writing piece. In each class, we will use a method called sentence stacking. This method of writing is used in many successful schools throughout the United Kingdom. An idea or writing extract is looked at and modelled. The techniques used in the model are discussed and students brainstorm various ways to use this technique in different ways and in their own words. Ideas are gathered between all the students and then a sentence is built.  Together and independently we will then create compelling and engaging sentences.  This class is based on a UK Year 4 level, however, older students from an ESL background will benefit from this technique. We look at is repetition, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyming, personification, adjectives, adverbs, complex sentences and adverbial phrases to name a few. 

In this class, students will be writing a beautiful story based on the heartwarming and wise story called 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse' by Charlie Mackesy. Students do not need a copy of this book as we are only using some of the pictures in the story as inspiration for our writing. Altogther, there are 8 writing lessons and then an editing lesson. In each lesson, we will explore various writing techniques and outcomes and I will model this for students so they know exactly what to do, and are free to change theirs as much as they want or stick closely to my model.  By the end of the fifth week, each student will have a beautifully written, top-quality essay that will be full of important writing tools.  It is important that students write their six writing chunks at the end of each week if they can.  Students are welcome to send in their weekly writing at any time during the week. I will give all students personal feedback with a video recording so that they can see exactly where they did well and what they can edit.

Lessons will be uploaded on the classroom page as an unlisted youtube link. When the link is clicked- the lesson will play.

Syllabus

9 Lessons
over 5 Weeks
Lesson 1:
The Boy all Alone
 Write effective sentences for our story using fronted adverbial and feelings, similes and touch vocabulary 
Lesson 2:
The Boy and the Mole sitting on the tree
 Learning Objective: Write effective sentences for our story using questions and inverted commas for speech and repetition 
Lesson 3:
The Fox watching through the leaves
 Write effective sentences for our story using 'ing' verbs, metaphor, fronted adverbial, adjectives and feelings 
Lesson 4:
The Fox Trapped
 Write effective sentences for our story using adverbial phrase and sounds, prepositions, adjectives, repetition and an action sentence 

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All video-recorded lessons will be uploaded via a youtube link. No need to subscribe to Youtube to access the video

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Joined February, 2021
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Hello, my name is Carlin King. I am a Year 1 teacher living and working in the United Kingdom. I have been a primary school teacher for more than ten years and love being part of the formative years. I have been trained in a number of different phonetic programmes including RWInc (Read, Write Inc). 

My greatest passion is teaching children to read and write. As a child, I loved to write stories. I found it came naturally to me as I was a total book worm. However, as a teacher, I have seen that many children struggle with creativity, vocabulary and sentence structure when it comes to their writing. When children have both a writing model and an interest in the subject matter - that is when creative writing takes shape. Engaging and exciting themes, fun and well-written books and fascinating historical events and characters are just some of the subjects I like to use in my writing lessons. These classes will be for primary school children roughly between the ages of 5-8. Basic phonetic knowledge needs to be there as we can then sound out and build sentences together.  

I am a firm believer in teaching phonics when it comes to fluent and confident reading. I have been teaching children to read throughout my teaching career and have had many experiences in different phonetic programmes. I decided to create my own phonic reading scheme, using what I know works, and make it engaging and exciting for children.
I believe teaching is about having fun and allowing children to get emersed in a subject. As a teacher, I strive to be a guide - allowing children to let their interest and curiosity drive their learning. As a child, I loved school and was privileged to go to more than one school as I spent my childhood living in different parts of Africa. I was born in Nambia and then moved to Ghana when I was nine years old.  As a teenager, I attended a wonderful boarding school in South Africa. I now live in England with my husband and two gorgeous babies.

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