Yvonne McBlain was delighted to be invited in to talk to Denny primary 1 pupils about their writing – Click here to read her previous blog post about the Talk for Writing programme being used by class teachers Brenda Bennie and Amanda Gardner at Denny PS.

Oliver chose his favourite page of writing and took the photograph on the left – when asked how he felt about it he said “Good, cos it’s very good and I like it.”

Felix photographed his whole storybook then said “I’m so impressed with it – people say it’s really good. Sometimes I get mistakes wrong but that’s ok because we learn. I get to take it home today. I’m gonna show my mum and dad and they’ll read it to me and they’ll say “WOW, you wroted a whole book and it’s called Baby Golden Eagle”!

 

 

 

 

Orla and Abi showed Mrs McBlain how they used their character as a pointer when they read their stories. They are in the Bluebell group and used dotted letters to help them write their stories. Orla thinks this is “really good because some of it has dotty writing and we have to trace over it and sometimes Mrs Bennie writes it (words needed for the story) on her book and it helps us”. Abi added that “some people have blank sheets to do it all themselves.” (write independently)

Both girls were also very proud of their story books – Orla said “I say 10 out of 10. I love it. I can’t wait to take it home – show it to my mum.” “I say 11! I can’t wait to show it to my friend.” exclaimed Abi.

Other pupils in the class were so proud of their writing that they asked to be photographed with their books. Well done everyone and happy reading!