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20 Action Activities Jen McVeity

20 Action Activities Jen McVeity. Jen McVeity. Author x 20 books Churchill Fellow National Literacy Champion Creator - Seven Steps EX TEACHER!. Got to make the ‘O’ join up. Be creative!!!. How to Teach Writing Without Writing a Word. Secret is Chunking. Ideas from Seven Steps.

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20 Action Activities Jen McVeity

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  1. 20 Action Activities Jen McVeity

  2. Jen McVeity • Author x 20 books • Churchill Fellow • National Literacy Champion • Creator - Seven Steps • EX TEACHER!

  3. Got to make the ‘O’ join up

  4. Be creative!!!

  5. How to Teach WritingWithout Writing a Word

  6. Secret is Chunking

  7. Ideas from Seven Steps • Narrative • Persuasive

  8. KISS • 7 x simple techniques • created by an author • 100 x writing activities • that take less than 10 minutes a day.

  9. Step 1Plan for Success

  10. Story Graph

  11. Story Graph

  12. Action Activities 1. Chatterbox - Random Ideas generator 2. Daily joke – story graph 3. Pixar – 5 min shorts 4. Film trailers – how will they end? 5. Heroes + Villains + Problems = Plan

  13. Action Activities 6. Quotes from authors on planning Jackie French: ‘I wrote my first book down the dunny in the backyard. It was the only peaceful place I could daydream. Books need more THINKING about than writing!’

  14. Action Activities 7. Create a verbal story using kids as actors. 8. Use cracked fairy tales as plays. 9. Morning Show and Tell anecdotes – kids tell stories to follow the graph. 10. Tell myths and legends. Refer to graph.

  15. 11. Film ad – on your school

  16. 12. ExtendJump

  17. Problems

  18. How will it all END?

  19. Action Activities 13. Order three pictures and tell story 14. Draw pictures along graph - plan Picture books – follow story graph

  20. Story Graph

  21. Action Activities • Narrative • Persuasive

  22. Secret is Chunking

  23. Say ‘no’ to the Nerdy kid

  24. Step 2Sizzling Starts

  25. First impressions count

  26. Nigel, graph of story

  27. 15. Start with dialogue ‘Look out!’ ‘Catch!’ ‘Dare you to jump.’

  28. Action Activities 16. Kids find THEIR favourite movie start. 17. Tell kids the story starts you ‘hate’ the most. e.g. ‘Once-upon-a-time.’ 18. Publish in school newsletter.

  29. 19. How authors write - quotes Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. (Nancy Ann Dibble )

  30. 20. Three word starts • Anaconda • Tattoo • lounge suite • ‘Darling’, she said as she lovingly traced the anaconda tattoo on his chest, ‘I think we need a new lounge suite.’

  31. Seven Steps Surround Us Movies Ads TV: Master Chef, Biggest Loser, The Voice Jokes Dinner table stories (or not!) Poetry Books

  32. ImplementationSuggest two weeks on every step.ConsistencyDON’T go for the quick fix.

  33. The Australian Curriculum: English aims - students: Appreciate, enjoy and use the English language in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue.

  34. Education Minister 2011 We want our teachers to feel confident to trial new approaches based on research, knowledge and evidence, and accept possible failure, as part of this approach. (The Hon. Martin Dixon, MP, Minister for Education, November 2011)

  35. Noise is Nouce!

  36. Some Results Thornlands: Over 25% of Year 5 students scored off the scale. Greenslopes: Huge difference between math and lit scores now. Casino HS: A two level rise in their literacy scores.

  37. Scotch College Seven years later they are still using the program. Highlights for me have been the wonderful response to your Seven Steps approach and the enthusiasm towards writing from both the boys and the staff. I have been thrilled with the results... (Scotch College)

  38. Kilcummin My kids and I have been making story graphs (using pictures instead of words) from well known stories for the past week now and they love it!  We had some kids not able to attend school last week because we had so much rain and they even did their own graphs at home!  (Amanda Lindeman, P-3 teacher)

  39. The Hard Part Writing is not something you do with a pen, it is something you do with your brain. (Jen McVeity) (How much writing have you done so far?)

  40. The Marking Rubrics (48 pts) 1 Audience (6 marks) 2 Text structure (4 marks) 3 Ideas (5 marks) 4 Persuasive devices (4 marks) 5 Vocabulary (5 marks) 6 Cohesion (4 marks) 7 Paragraphing (3 marks) 8 Sentence structure (6 marks) 9 Punctuation (5 marks) 10 Spelling (6 marks)

  41. Keep Kids Creative Writing is NOT spelling and grammar Don’t worry about spelling until the end! (e.g. OUR speed writing today)

  42. Beta (Conscious)

  43. Alpha (Subconscious)

  44. Alpha and Beta

  45. Don’t walk around the room

  46. The message is important

  47. Jake Parker Were has he gone his mother screamed whilst shoving more chocolate in her mouth. (Jake Parker Yr 9 Pyramid Hill)

  48. Jake It’s just me and the tree, this has to stop. It’s lookin at me with it’s green leafy eyes. It’s a showdown Just me and the tree.

  49. Consistency rules! • Change can’t • happen in a day. • But it can • in a term.

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