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Successful writers invent text, making choices about what to write and how to write it based on their knowledge of the two main aspects of writing - composition and transcription. Composition involves planning writing for specific audiences and purposes; knowing how to express ideas in writing by choosing the correct words; constructing sentences and knowing how different types of text are organised. Transcription involves knowing how to write things down, ie. spelling and handwriting.
There needs to be explicit teaching of both these aspects of writing. Spelling is taught during the Word level section of the Literacy Hour, and additional time is allocated on many school timetables for the direct teaching of handwriting. Compositional skills are modelled in shared writing and children are given the opportunity to apply all that they have been taught when they are writing independently.
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