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Webinar: Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program to Improve Students’ Writing
Presented: Tuesday 29th August 2017
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Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program To Improve
Students’ Writing
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Pre- Questions from TA’s
1.Where do I start with my students?
You need to develop confidence and clarity in your students first. Start with talk, games and
repetition, then slowly build. Use your expressions to ‘give away’ the right answer to model.
2. How much can I support during the Big Write?
Honestly, as much is required, but of course the goal is to develop independence so don’t step in
to quickly. The big write is a completely supported session- if you have to scribe a few lines,
reduce the paper size, give spelling words etc, do it. But note it down for the teacher.
3. How do I turn the talk into writing?
If the child has the physical writing ability, then once they are talking and sharing, celebrate and
encourage them to put those words down on the paper. This can be a slow process- you write a
word, you write a sentence, child writes a word, child writes a sentence, you scribe for 2mins=
10 lines – child writes for 10mins= 3 lines and build up
Webinar: Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program to Improve Students’ Writing
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4. How do I help with editing and up-levelling?
They need to understand the process first, so lots of modelling. Use the I do, We do, You do approach.
Don’t try and edit large chunks, just sections for a specific purpose. Use games to help with
uplevelling- chatterboxes, up-level it.
5. What if a child has limited talk skills?
Then we are talking any form of communication. If the verbal language isn’t available, but we have
assessed the mental age, then we can work from there. This will require a lot of flash cards, drawing
and if/when possible, writing.
6. Can we use a laptop or device?
Technology is an important part of the student’s current world. It would do no good to eliminate the
usage. But we do have to moderate and make sure we are using for the right purposes- not just busy
time.
There are great apps or language support tools like speech to text programs to help a child get their
thoughts down. There are also a lot of great games to play for language and fine motor skill
development as well. Typing your story every now and again might also be an option.
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Whisper Phones & Classroom Critters:
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V - Vocabulary -words that make you go wow
C - Connectives -words that connect sentences, ideas and
paragraphs together
O - Openers -Power Openers, ‘ly’, ‘ing’ and connectives
P - Punctuation -Power punctuation ! ? …
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Webinar: Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program to Improve Students’ Writing
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Webinar: Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program to Improve Students’ Writing
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Start with a Yes/No box and build up. Practise question games in a
variety of ways
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references- Question Stems
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I let Jazmine colour her set in to
personalise them.
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Photocopy pictures from
popular picture story series’
The student picks 3-5
pictures to tell a new story
with. This can be verbalised
or written and individually,
in pairs or small groups
(build a story).
*May not be suitable for some students
on the spectrum
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You could verbally
construct the story with the
student/s, prompting with
the questions, or set it up
as an independent task.
It’s very supportive in
layout, but I suggest it’s
modelled first.
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Guided Drawing
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Webinar: Big Write and VCOP – A Fun Program to Improve Students’ Writing
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Links to resources:
VCOP Pyramids-
Phonic/Whisper Phones – a classroom essential
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B69r4QWITAfxNG9QanluV2pjSTQ?usp=sharing
VCOP Pyramid
What’s in the box
Yes/No box
Question Stems and What’s in the bag?
Opener Dice Game
Story Stones and Classroom Critters can be made to order just email me for info:
Phonic/Whisper Phones are available here:
http://www.andrelleducation.com.au/resources#list