Literacy strategy of the week: Writing Frames: A writing frame comprises a skeleton outline provided to the students to scaffold their written work.

Literacy strategy of the week: Writing Frames: A writing frame comprises a skeleton outline provided to the students to scaffold their written work. By giving some sentence starters and a few rhetorical phrases common to the genre or task, frames provide students with a structure that enables them to concentrate on expressing their ideas.

At home: This is another one which is tricky to translate to home but you might find other ways to give your child sentence starters to get them thinking or talking about anything. If it helps guide a conversation at home I’d love to hear about it!

What we're reading: I have just started reading "She is not your rehab" by Matt and Sarah Brown from the school library. I have been following She Is Not Your Rehab on Facebook for a while and am so impressed by the work they are doing. Matt Brown began as a barber hearing men's stories as he did their hair. As a survivor of family violence himself, and hearing the stories of the men he worked with, he felt called to do something about it. He has started a global anti-violence movement which even caught the attention of Dwayne, The Rock, Johnson. I am slowly working my way through it as it is not an easy read, but it's an important one. It speaks to address causes, consequences and solutions to issues of violence and abuse in New Zealand families. 

K Beaumont

HOD English

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