Middle Team Staff writing PD meeting July 2017

1. MIDDLE TEAM WRITING SHARING: ALL
eAsTTle
Term1
eAsTTle
Term 2
Start of
Intervention OTJ
OTJ/Writing Level End
of Intervention
1B 1P Below L1iii/Below
1B 2A Below At/2B
1P 1A Below Below/1iii
1B 2B Below At/1iii
1B 1P Well Below Below/1iii
1B 1P Below Below/1iii
1B Below At 1iii
1B 2P Below At 1iii
2B 3B Below AT L2b
1P 1A Below Below
1A 2B Below At
1B 1P Below Below
1B 1A Below At 1iii
1B 2B Below Below
1B 1P Below Below
What is ALL?
A Ministry Funded Intervention to accelerate learning in an
area of literacy over a period of 10 weeks.
What does it involve?
PD for leaders around acceleration, the theory of action of
putting ALL into practise
Inquiry into writing and raising achievement in writing for target
students in class with an over and above component of
teaching.
Our Plan of Action/Keys to Success:
● We selected students who we believed we could move.
● We worked on building strong relationships and got to know
them as individuals - background, family, interests, talents,
passions
● We knew we had lots of work to do on raising their levels of
engagement. So motivation and interest was critical.
● Our first eAsTTle sample was rather frightening - there were
significant gaps and we needed to prioritise their goals.
● These students were withdrawn for some support with
Racheal but most of their learning took place within their
usual classroom with the focus on building teacher

2. MIDDLE TEAM WRITING SHARING: ALL
WORD WALLS AND WORD WORK

3. Linda’s Quick Writes - Digital Prompts
TKI Story Starters
http://success-for-boys.tki.org.nz/Teaching-learning-resources/Story-Starters/That-Really-
Stinks
Once Upon a Picture
https://www.facebook.com/onceuponapicture/
Literacy Shed
http://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
Scholastic Machine
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/
Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA&t=2082s