My Writing Journey. TERM 1 to TERM 2!!!!

By Anonymous -
Term 1

Last term I had Felicity (One of my Learning Advisors) for writing. I was in a big group called Hogwarts literacy. Felicity taught us this thing where we had to read a sentence and we had to say "I think this means" before the sentence and describe the sentence in a shorter version. We also did persuasive writing and information writing. She made us use a spider plan or a hamburger plan. I personally liked the hamburger plan because it made more sense to me.

Last term I really enjoyed doing the persuasive writing because we got to do a letter to our parents to persuade them about something. I really like trying to get something off my parents so thats why I really enjoyed it.

 My challenges last term in Hogwarts was the little time we had to finish our follow ups but it taught me that I don't have time to muck around.

 Term 2  

This term we have been learning about instructional writing, explanation writing and PEEL (Point Evidence Explanation Link) planning with Nicole one of my of my other LA's and my tagged teacher. A few weeks ago we made Ice cream sundaes. Actually Nicole did but we got to tell her what to do which was really fun. After we finished we got to eat an Ice cream Sundae. YAY!!! For instructional writing we learnt did (how to make Kawakawa balm) with Kothar our other LA who is with us for her university. We also did a workshop on how to make a glossary as well. For our explanation writing we have to plan with PEEL and I really enjoy doing it. They use PEEL at the highschool so our school is preparing us now.

I really enjoyed making the Ice cream sundaes because I got to eat some and it was a good way to write down instructions for our instructional writing.

My challenges were the PEEL planning. I am not very good at it but I have to practice so I can improve on using it.

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