Eva' Writing Learning Story

Eva’s writing learning story.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”

(Quote by Benjamin Franklin)

At the begin of term one we had started to learn how to create a piece of writing that communicate our identity effectively. We started off by making a brainstorm using different tools e.g mind mup, coggle, paper e.t.c. Once we had finished that we started to make a draft of what we wanted people to know about yourself.

To make this a good piece of writing we had to use the success criteria e.g

• Use a hook- to hook your readers in.
• Maybe use another way of making our reader want to read more, like… (ellipses), or only giving a little information at once.
• Making our readers work something out (infer) by

Using anecdotes and examples-stories from the plast.

• Using an unusual writing style (poem, news report…)
• Use cleaver dialogue.
• Punctuation
• Carefully choose languages- everyday languages/ languages we use with our friends.The k.c skill I use was managing self by choosing a good place to sit and working with people I know will help me, not distract me. Another k.c skill I used was relating to others by getting other peoples feedback to help improve my story.

I think I was good at making my writing detailed, by adding some childhood stories, and writing lots of interesting things about myself to keep the reader hooked in. I was also good at using a hook to hook the reader in, by asking my reader a question e.g (do you want to get to know me?) I involved the reader in my story.

Something I got better at was using show not tell so that my reader was able to infer something about myself. I did that because I did not want to give them all the information and I wanted them to think about it and work something out, for e.g “Well it all started 12 years ago on the 27 of february 2006”. From this my reader was able to work out that I was 12 years old.

Something that I found hard was trying to use the right words e.g not giving everything away by tell them things but not everything, and making sure it’s interesting. When I found that hard I got help from my teachers and my friends and that was really helpful.

My next steps would be to work on using more show don’t tell. I will achieve this by trying to use more of it in our other writing stories and maybe by doing some of it at home.