What do good writers do?

As a writer I am learning to:

Use Encoding Strategies:

Planning, Writing, Revising

The Writing Process

What strategies can I use to help me spell?

Make Sense:
What strategies can I use to make sure my writing is clear, flows and makes sense to the reader?
Planning Sentence structure - grammar and punctuation

Focus on Deeper features: What strategies do I need to consider to make my writing interesting and effective?
Purpose / Voice, Content, Language features Vocabulary Usage

Making Sense: How to write a good sentence!

WALT: Write our ideas in sentences that make sense, so that other people can read our writing and understand it. Use a range of sentences to make my writing interesting for the reader. Simple Sentence has only 1 idea WHO: VERB (or chain) They, her, she, it, I Ate NOUN (Subject): who is this sentence about? VERB: What is the subject doing? Compound Sentences has 2 or more ideas and a conjunction (glue) WHO: The dog barked CONTRACTION: Joining words. Complex sentences have 2 or more ideas. At least 1 main idea and another that is linked to this by a conjunction (shows a relationship between ideas). WHO: The dog barked Contraction (Shows Relationship) because VERB it was lonely Contraction (GLUE) and VERB it woke the baby.

Sentence Fluency also needs: Capital Letters: Start of a sentence and Proper nouns people, places, days and names. End sentences with a Full stop, exclamation mark or question mark. Making my writing interesting: I can use: Adjectives they describe the noun. The shaggy dog. Verbs describe what the main subject is doing. The shaggy dog had a sleep. Adverbs describes a verb. We went quickly to the shop. We go to the beach often. Precise nouns find a better work for your noun. Eg house could be shack, hovel, mansion, palace. Activate the nouns make the nouns do something. Eg the decrepit house shrinks into the horizon. Exciting Vocabulary: improve sentences by avoiding over used words, like said, got, went, then and adding WOW words Write your whole piece in the same tense: Past tense: had, have, was, went, made, yesterday, last week, once upon a time. Present Tense: am, are, now, is, here Future Tense: will, tomorrow, next weekend, word ending ed

Encoding Strategies
I am learning to:

What do I do in my head to write a word that I cant spell?

Slowly say the word and - Think about the sounds at the beginning of the word. deep - Think about the sounds in the middle and end of the word. deep

What spelling rules do I know for these sounds?

I know /k/ is written as a k if it comes before i or e.

king

For longer words, break down the word in syllables. Identify the sounds within each syllable and join the parts together. Choc/o/late ch o c/ o/ l a t e

Write the word, then

and think.

Does it look right?

Do the sounds match up to the word you are trying to write?

Which letters or group of letters can I use to write the sounds? Digraphs - th, ch,,wh Blends - bl, tr, ng Vowels - a, e, i, o, u word endings - s, ed, er, ing
Common letter patterns that go together ible, able, ble Word families if I can hear a familiar pattern what similar rhyming words do I know how to write? at cat, that , en - men, when, pen , it - mit, kit, og - dog, frog, smog, ump - dump, slump. Do I know a part of the word (root/base word or a word within the word?) Has the word got a common prefix or suffix ? Unhelpful Is it a compound word? sunflower What surface features do I need to show in my writing?