Literacy Leaders’ Network Meetings – 2022 / 2023

The dates for the meetings in 2023/24 are:

8 March 2023 and 23 March 2023 – Link to resources from these meetings

14 June 2023

1 November 2023

13 March 2024

Literacy Leaders’ Network Meeting – Provisional agenda Autumn 2022 – 2 November 2022 – A writing special
Agenda item 1 – Finding the plot: revisiting the effective teaching of writing

Before writing: Giving children a voice
- A high quality text to explore by the class:
  - Audience and purpose
  - Vocabulary development
  - Grammatical structures
  - Layout
  - Writing opportunities
- Providing and developing sound understanding of:
  - Plot
  - Character
  - Setting
- Responding to books and discussing the purpose of language used
During and after writing

Couch to 5 paragraphs

The following statements are from the Couch to 5k app. Look how they apply to some children’s experience of writing:
- feel defeated and give up when just getting started.
- gradually build … stamina.
- make the challenge feel achievable right from the start.
So my suggested approach is:
Stretching and warm ups – sentence level work involving sentence combining, shrinking and expanding and singling out sentences; finding great examples from authors.
Building stamina – shorter and longer burst writing focusing upon setting, character and action and the practising of drafting and editing with ‘tiny texts’ and again stealing the style from authors.
Extended writing – applying the techniques in end of unit writing – the importance of structure.

Agenda item 2 – Make it sing: achieving greater depth in writing.

What do we mean by GD writers and who are they?
Key dimensions for challenge
Broader – deeper – reflective – independent
Communicating beyond the classroom
Task repertoire
Texts and contexts for challenge
Stealing the style and singling out sentences – digging deeper
Boxed planning
ACE – Analyse – Create – Evaluate

Meetings are held online via Zoom.

Cost: £170 for each individual meeting or special ‘season ticket’ offer of all three meetings for £450

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