{"id":69,"date":"2015-02-19T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T14:04:17","slug":"vcop-big-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/curriculum\/vcop-big-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy and English"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Writing, like most skills, develops with practise.\u00a0 Big Writing encourages children to develop their written skills first through talk and then through the written word, encapsulated through the saying “If a child can say it, they can write it!”<\/p>\n

Developed by Ros Wilson, Big Writing allows children to check their progress against a set\u00a0scale and assess their own writing levels using VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation<\/strong>) criteria.<\/p>\n

Writing sessions at New Cumnock Primary School begin with the issuing of “Talk Homework”.\u00a0 Children will be encouraged to talk to their parent or carer about their writing task they will\u00a0be set.\u00a0 This may involve telling a creative story, a personal response or giving information and researching.<\/p>\n

During the first hour of writing, children take part in various VCOP activities, all related to writing.\u00a0 Many of these are interactive and involve children working collaboratively\u00a0in groups,\u00a0accessing technologies including the Promethean board or IPads, or even playing word games.\u00a0 After the activities, children are given the opportunity to plan their writing.\u00a0 This can take the form of a written plan, a picture plan or a discussion with a partner, group or class teacher.<\/p>\n

The second hour of writing is the children’s opportunity for free writing.\u00a0 During this time, there are no interruptions to the children’s writing process and we often play music to stimulate the children’s creativity.\u00a0 They are allowed to use the VCOP wall display, word books, dictionaries and VCOP pyramids to assist them with their ideas.<\/p>\n

After writing,\u00a0pupils are encouraged to read back their writing and self assess using the VCOP\u00a0criteria .\u00a0 They traffic light their work before allowing the teacher to assess.\u00a0 One piece of writing each term is chosen for enhanced assessment to track pupils progress in writing.<\/p>\n

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Writing, like most skills, develops with practise.\u00a0 Big Writing encourages children to develop their written skills first through talk and then through the written word, encapsulated through the saying “If a child can say it, they can write it!” Developed by Ros Wilson, Big Writing allows children to check their progress against a set\u00a0scale and … Continue reading Literacy and English<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3847,"featured_media":0,"parent":65,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/16597"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/newcumnockprimaryschoolea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}