In this particular year 4 class, there seemed to be difficulties with imaginative writing and the children struggled to visualise their ideas without a stimulus.
Before the lesson, the children thought about and made mind maps of sentences with 'ing' openers. E.g. they focused on a dolphin and the way it moved. They then shared ideas as a whole class and created a word bank of 'ing' words. The teacher then modelled how these words could be used within a sentence and then the children were divided into groups.
Some groups had a photo of an underwater setting as a visual stimulus and produced a piece of paired writing describing that setting. Children were able to use key words from the class word bank to support them. Each group got a chance to use the Endless Ocean game on the wii to enhance their ideas.
Children were also adding words to a class list of adjectives and creating sentences for a whole class 'big write'.
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