Hi
How do you improve on a child's writing. Ds can't seem to use good description and if forced to it is very limited to, for example - "the yellow sun or the huge dragon" - but nothing more and its like pulling teeth. August born but still Very able in all other areas including reading and spelling - but depth of writing I don't think is Year 4 level and there is a huge contrast between that and other areas of the curriculum so just for example if I rate maths at 5 and reading spelling at 4 - I would rate the quality of his writing at 2. School aren't much help as he doesn't have any special needs- and is not in lower ability groups. I will add that he reads a lot and always has done; we talk about books. He is a talker and shows imagination through made up games etc - but it I noticed he doesn't translate to written work. For example he can randomly look at a cloud and explain how to him it looks like an elephant but he can't express anything deeper through description- if he writes a story - it is very factual and he often doesn't give his characters names unless prompted. I think most of the children in his ability groups would be doing this. Any advice please - things I can help him with especially over the summer. Thanks
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Descriptive writing Ds yr 4
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dadap · 07/06/2017 06:11
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