Friday 13 May 2016

Writing Goals Update

This week I am reflecting on one of my writing goals


IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to:


* use a variety of sentence starters


This week I have been focusing on how to write a drop-in clause


SO WHAT?
Here is an example of a drop-in clause


Mr Forman is our teacher.
He loves his red car.
Mr Forman, who is our teacher, loves his red car.


Mr Forman is the subject of the sentence.
We change ‘He’ to ‘who’
We place commas around the clause we ‘drop-in’


MY EXAMPLES:
Here are two examples of a drop-in clause that I have created.
[1]The dinosaur,who was wearing a nappy,was chasing the boy.
[2]The Action Hero,who was wearing a flowery headband,stormed through the jungle


NOW WHAT?
I rate my understanding level at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
My confidence level with using these types of sentences independently in my writing is

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Friday 6 May 2016

My writing Goals for term 2

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to ;

*Organise my writing into paragraphs

*Use a variety of sentence starters

*Use the correct language features of a narrative-dialogue

Use a variety of sentence starters

To help me with this goal I am using a 'Sentence Starter Menu'


It will help my writing to be more interesting and to hook the reader in more.