Session 3

1. handwriting practice - letter g - how many in 2 minutes? done without any fuss

2. Talk about where an alien story would take place. Think of interesting descriptive words - rally robin

3. Use a dictionary to find spellings. - combined 2 and 3 and took it in turns to write a list of descriptive words, using a dictionary where necessary. Small boy knew how to use a dictionary without any trouble. He was definitely tempted to use the dictionary for every word though! Again, writing not an issue.

4. 10 minutes writing - write a description of the alien story setting.

He was a bit more reluctant to write now, so we talked through what he might write. Reminded him of finger spaces, capital letters, full stops, letter shapes and listening for sounds. Then he suddenly said "ding!" and decided to write! I think it's going to end up as a piece of non fiction work - have reminded him we're writing a setting for a story!


Rewarded good work with stickers as he went along
~ reading back his work to himself
~ using his word bank
~ sitting writing on the line
~ full stops and capital letters


Half way through he complained his shoulders hurt! He checked the time after about 7 and a half minutes. He asked how to spell area and I asked him to sound it out (he wrote aireea).


Daddy was home tonight and he read Small Boy's work cold - brilliant!


Afterwards, he was obviously pleased with his work. I asked how this compared to writing he does at school and he said this was better because he can talk about his ideas and he doesn't get chance to do that at school.