After their visit to the castle, Year 6 began the task of creating their own class story. They began by choosing a location - a castle, and a character - Jack.
Working through the afternoon, the children developed a basic storyline, and Michael recorded their story at the end of the day. The children made story maps to help them remember the plot.
On the morning of the second day, Michael played the story back to the children.
Michael then broke the story into 'chunks', which he wrote on the white board as a memory aid. The teachers remembered that there was a dragon in school, and added it to the whiteboard as extra inspiration. Isn't he fabulous?
Each table of children worked on developing and extending their 'chunk' of the story.
At the end of the morning, the story was read out.
There were some breathtakingly good pieces of prose in the work.
A few small amendments were suggested, to make the story more exciting, and ensure the action was comprehensible to the reader. The children made these changes before finishing for lunch.
The story was typed up over lunch, and projected on to the white board after lunch. Everybody worked together to develop, refine and edit the story, sentence by sentence, throughout the afternoon.
The children wanted to be sure that whoever read the story would have great 'pictures in their heads'.
The story was finished and read aloud with just a few minutes of the school day left. Phew!
Working through the afternoon, the children developed a basic storyline, and Michael recorded their story at the end of the day. The children made story maps to help them remember the plot.
On the morning of the second day, Michael played the story back to the children.
Michael then broke the story into 'chunks', which he wrote on the white board as a memory aid. The teachers remembered that there was a dragon in school, and added it to the whiteboard as extra inspiration. Isn't he fabulous?
Each table of children worked on developing and extending their 'chunk' of the story.
At the end of the morning, the story was read out.
There were some breathtakingly good pieces of prose in the work.
A few small amendments were suggested, to make the story more exciting, and ensure the action was comprehensible to the reader. The children made these changes before finishing for lunch.
The story was typed up over lunch, and projected on to the white board after lunch. Everybody worked together to develop, refine and edit the story, sentence by sentence, throughout the afternoon.
The children wanted to be sure that whoever read the story would have great 'pictures in their heads'.
The story was finished and read aloud with just a few minutes of the school day left. Phew!
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