Our writing curriculum is specially designed to ensure that our texts link to our history topics and our writing genres are text based. Our intention is to provide children with a clear, progressive Literacy curriculum, introducing them to a variety of authors, high quality texts and the skills to achieve their full potential. The sequence of lessons promotes the exploration of genres, the skills of spelling, grammar and punctuation, the importance of drafting and improving their own writing independently and being proud of their final pieces.

• Immersion
  This is when children explore the text or genre of writing through speaking and listening activities.
• SPaG
  Punctuation and grammar has a one off lesson where children can practise this skill, this will also be the focus success criteria in their final writing.
• Planning
  Children have a chance to plan their writing, this will support their final piece.
• Writing
  This will happen over a couple of days, children use their plans and everything they ahev explored to write!
• Edit
  Children have a chance to go over teacher’s marking and edit their writing. This is checking spellings, grammar and any misconceptions. They will be able to draft a small part of their writing.
• Publishing
  At the end of this cycle, children will have a chance to write out their writing in neat for their publishing books.

Spellings

At Alexandra, we practise spellings every day in our Literacy lessons. In Key Stage 1, spelling is a focus of Phonics teaching, which is taught using Read Write Inc programme. In Key Stage 2, children use ‘Shakespeare and More’ which provides us with spelling rules and patterns, however still using the RWI strategies and activities.

Handwriting

We teach cursive handwriting across the school. Children start on being able to form individual letters, leading on to joining these letters to other letters. We teach standalone handwriting lessons each week so children can practise handwriting separately to writing in their subject books.  Children are expected to produce neat, joined, legible handwriting at all times.

To see how you can help your child, click on the link below to see the spellings for each year group.

Spelling List