The purpose of blogging at school:

• To publish your reflections, ideas and work.

• To connect and communicate with the learning community, including other students, teachers, parents, and learners all over the world.

• To learn from others and to self-direct your learning

Here are some writing tips to help you:

In this stage you develop and plan your idea (use an mindmap or wordle to help you)

In this stage you begin composing your ideas

• Begin composing your sentences

• Make sure your sentences make sense

• Ensure your message is clear and succinct (don’t go on and on)

• Use paragraphs to organise your ideas

This is where you can add more detail to your writing. Capture your audience!

Some tips when editing you writing

• Use Capital letters for proper nouns (names of persons, places, or certain special things)

• Use Capital letters for titles ( movies, books)

• Use Capital letters to begin a sentence.

• Punctuate your writing (capital letters, commas, and full stops, exclamation marks, question marks etc)

• Use paragraphs to organise your ideas

• Ensure your message is clear and succinct ( don’t go on and on and on)

• Make sure your sentences make sense.

• Proofread your posts

• Get a friend to proof read it too!

• make sure frequently used words are spelled correctly

• use a dictionary, wordlist, …spellcheck… but don’t be fooled!

• do NOT use abbreviations or abbreviated text