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Any great work books to get yr1 daughter writing?

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Meaningbusiness · 29/05/2015 16:01

Hi there,

Dd is in year one and an excellent speller. Also great at reading. However, she finds writing hard - the putting down of ideas, remembering adjectives, using full stops etc. we've just written a short piece together and she wrote 'and' 20 times!!

I'm bored of thinking of new things to write about. Has anyone come across a fun, happy book with small exercises and things to write about, with some nice illustrations. It must exist! Somewhere. Anyone know it?

Thanks.

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RevealTheHiddenBeach · 29/05/2015 16:05

It's not a book, but have you thought about using story cubes? you can buy or make them, and basically you roll them and make up a story with whatever comes up. You can get quite pretty ones and the diy versions are good fun!

If she is up for the challenge of different connectives etc then a word bank might be good, but at that age I would tend to focus on the joy of writing for pleasure, and using imagination!

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mrz · 29/05/2015 16:24

Ban "and" or limit his many times she can use it or only allow it in a list. My class love the idea that "and" is banned and "said" is dead.
Get her to create her own lists of alternatives.

Jumpstart Storytelling Pie Corbett has lots of ideas