Other Class Ob - Year 3/4 Low Writers

Observation:     15^th November 2017
Writing – Year 3/4

Set Up: Students in circle on mat with book.
Hook: Mystery Book

Discuss simple and compound sentences. Compound – Has 2 ideas. Basic has 1 idea.

Students ask questions about what’s in the box: Ie: What shape is it?

T – “What’s our simple sentence to start our writing?” 
T – Writes simple sentence on whiteboard students copy.   Big focus when T is writing simple sentence. Discuss Blends/diagraphs. What makes the er sound?

If it starts with a vowel we say an ie: an apple, an elephant  not a apple, a elephant.

Ideas are written together using both simple and compound sentences. Students can copy off the whiteboard. At the end the item is revealed.

Other Class=
Middle Writers – Planned writing yesterday “What would you find in your enchanted forest?” Drawing picture today to match enchanted forest description.