Club de escritura para principiantes: una frase a la vez (MCER A2-B1)

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 is 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 effective and engaging sentences.  This class is open to students  who are at a beginner level of writing. We will be looking at capital letters, punctuation, basic sentence structure as well as using verbs and adjectives in our writing.  Students will be guided in their sentence creation and this is a good place for them to gain some confidence in their ideas and abilities. 

We will also look at creating sentences to fit with different types of writing- such as fairytales, fables, narratives as well as non-fiction writing such as a persuasive essays, information texts and recounts. 

Here is a guideline of each class
- Looking at a writing prompt. Discussing it and coming up with our own ideas.
-Look at a teachers model and discuss important things such as capital letters and full stops.
- Brainstorm some vocabulary we could use
- Give it a try
- Share our sentences and see where we can improve. 

Each lesson will focus on building the skill of writing sentences that make sense and use correct punctuation. Each class there will be a new focus and topic which means that each class an be joined at any time.