Inspiring Writing in Primary Schools by Chamberlain Liz;

Author:Chamberlain, Liz;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781526461629
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Published: 2020-10-20T19:30:29.063032+00:00

Teachers’ toolkit

Time-specific terminology.

First/second/third person.

Chronological framework.

Similarities and differences.

Use of adjectives.

Simple conjunctions: because, but, if, and.

Formulating questions.

Structuring an answer to posed questions, both verbally and in written form, and being able to discuss the differences in grammar used.

The blurb

In this writing plan, Year 1 children will be contextualising their knowledge of information writing within a historical topic. The aim was to gather information about what it is like to live in the Victorian time of 1837–1901, during this era of great national achievements. In the history National Curriculum (for England and Wales), children are taught about the lives of significant individuals, and there are many famous Victorians to choose from: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale or Mary Seacole. Alternatively, in learning about life beyond living memory, the focus could be on the introduction of mandatory and then free schooling, which all took place in Victorian times; this will be the focus of this writing plan.

Older children travelling back to Victorian times could arrive on a specific date when something was invented and proved to be a significant turning point in British history: for example, the penny-farthing bicycle, the postage stamp, the telephone, or even the earliest type of text message – the telegram. Did you know that the Victorians enjoyed a sweet tooth, and this was the era when ice cream, jelly babies and even the Easter egg came to prominence? As well as practical inventions and tasty sweet things, this was also the era of social responsibility, with no fewer than 640 charities being in existence in 1861: the Barnardo’s charity was founded through the work of Dr Thomas Barnardo; the Ragged Schools attempted to teach working class children for free; and both the Salvation Army and the Children’s Society were established. It was also the time of great children’s literature, with many of the following titles likely to be much-loved books in your school library: The Water Babies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, as well as the work of Charles Dickens.

Choosing the starting point for your time travel should not pose too much of a problem. Having arrived back at your chosen date, the children need to gather as much information as possible in order to help a nineteenth-century time-traveller who has found himself trapped in your twenty-first century classroom. The precursor for the children’s writing is the use of drama – in particular, role-play through strategies such as hot seating, the mantle of the expert and teacher-in-role.

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