Reluctant Writers Room 2 (ALL)

Some ideas of how to engage my reluctant writers in room 2.

10 weeks to set some strategies place
- Visual prompts with labels on topic
- Recording ideas
- Sticky notes with words that might be hard to write - not writing in the child's book
- Smaller groups
- Practising tricky words and adding t to a personal dictionary
- Word Cards
- Sentence Frames - model and adapt
- Picture prompts to organise writing e.g. frog  - picture of where they live, eat
- Simple mindmaps
- Explicit feedback - positive feedback
- The teacher is the scribe for the planning part - and then they will write their draft using the plan - pre-load them so that next time they try it alone
- After reading a book - practice planning - how would the author have planned his writing

Books: The panicosaurus, The Disappointment dragon & the Red Beast  (series) Written by K.I. Al-Ghani
Zones of regulation NZ FB page -
Aroha's Way Book
Helping Kiwi Kids with anxiety

Social Skills games - a bit like charades - dramatise what to do in specific situations - How do you fee and what can you do?

Breathing space - add posters of how to do breathing and add something special box e.g. with a game or books

Fidget pillow - Little Red's Learning Tools.