Supporting Writing at Home Vcop
Supporting Writing at Home Vcop
Supporting Writing at Home Vcop
using VCOP
There are 4 VCOP superheroes to help the children with their writing:
Violet has the power to help people really see how things look.
She holds the secret of how characters and places really feel.
Although words for sights and sounds are her favourite weapons she knows
the importance of taste, touch and smell too.
Violet knows how to pick just the right nouns or verbs to give writing real
power over a reader.
She uses adjectives and adverbs to hypnotise people into really seeing and
feeling a piece of writing.
Noun -
A word that names a person, place or thing: The tired, scared boy
trudged slowly through the thick mud.
Adjective
Verb -
Adverb -
A word to describe how the action is taking place: The tired, scared
boy trudged slowly through the thick mud.
The Captain holds the team together and without him writing can be
repetitive and boring, holding no power over the reader at all.
His greatest power is to link ideas together providing a net to catch any
reader.
He gives the opportunity to add more detail to a sentence, but doesnt always
appear in the middle of sentences!
The Doctors basic weapon is the power to stop and start a sentence. If capital
letters and full stops are missing, or in the wrong place, writing is weak. It will
not have the power to grab a reader!
His control over the reader is reinforced by the use of commas to separate
ideas. They work well when combined with connectives and openers.
He reveals what characters actually say with speech marks.
Does he ask questions? Of course, thats a great weapon for hooking a reader.
Can you improve your writing to help the incredible VCOP super
heroes save the world from a fate worse than dullness?
Encourage your child to improve the sentences that they write, using VCOP. For
example,
Example
Last night.
Carefully, he crept ..
Across the road.
Bill wandered .
Like an eel ..
Tall trees towered overhead .
Excited, Joanna ran ..
Running quickly, Tim felt ..
Time Connectives
Before
After
Later
After a while
Soon
Then
Afterwards
At dawn
Once
Suddenly
Eventually
Until
Before
Finally
Following
Firstly
When
Lastly
In the end
Soon
Later
After tea
Next
Now
Meanwhile
While
Tomorrow
One day
Previously
Since
At that moment
At the beginning
Alternatives to went
moving slowly
shuffled
toddled crept
meandered
moving unsteadily.
lumbered
shuffled
waddled
plodded
toddled doddered
limped
wobbled
lurched
Moving loudly or quickly
stomped
marched
strolled traipsed
strutted
hiked
stepped
pounded
Moving quietly
meandered
prowled
crept
pattered
roamed paced
sneaked
tiptoed