Motivation and choice < Back to Writing Motivation and choice Stage 1 Junior & Senior Infants Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Stage 2 1st & 2nd Class Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Stage 3 3rd & 4th Class Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Stage 4 Fifth and Sixth class Through appropriately engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Choose appropriate tools, content and topics for their own writing and select texts for sharing with others. I gcomhpháirt leis an múinteoir, líníochtaí nó a gcuid scríbhneoireachta atá ag teacht chun cinn a phlé le daoine eile. I gcomhpháirt leis an múinteoir, uirlisí cuí a úsáid agus topaic agus ábhar a roghnú chun téacs páirteach a chumadh agus a roghnú le roinnt le daoine eile. Rogha a dhéanamh maidir le topaic, ábhair, uirlisí cuí don scríbhneoireacht pháirteach nó neamhspleách. Téacsanna a roghnú le roinnt le daoine eile. (TF2, C1 + 2 + 3) Evaluate and critically choose appropriate tools, strategies, content and topics to create text in a range of genres across the curriculum for a variety of purposes and audiences. Uirlisí, straitéisí agus ábhar a mheas agus a roghnú chun téacs a chruthú i réimse seánraí. (TF2, C4) Progression steps The child… handles mark-making implements and materials to create text. The child… chooses mark-making implements and materials to create text of their choosing. The child… plays with a variety of implements and materials to create texts on a topic of their choice and selects texts to share with others. The child… uses a variety of implements and materials to create texts on a chosen topic and selects texts to display. The child… with increasing independence, chooses a topic and appropriate implements to create texts and selects texts to publish and display. The child… chooses from a wider range of topics and, with support, selects content and different presentation formats to share their writing. The child… chooses and refines ideas and content for their texts, and selects from a range of presentation formats to share their writing. The child… begins to research and chooses content to write about less-familiar topics and selects from a wider range of presentation formats to share their writing. The child… researches and chooses content to write about less familiar topics and selects appropriate presentation formats to share their writing. The child… compares and selects appropriate information from various sources for the intended purpose and audience Audience The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing. . analyses feedback for use in redrafting text. selects the appropriate genre Genre Genres are types of multi-sentence oral or written text structures that have become conventionalised for particular purposes with expected organisational patterns, as well as language features related to register e.g., narrative, informational, persuasive, and multi-genre. Simply put, genre refers to a selection of writing forms in order to recount, explain, entertain, inform, give instructions, narrate, persuade and justify opinions. for intended purpose and audience Audience The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing. . The child… analyses appropriate sources of information and selects most relevant source for the intended purpose and audience Audience The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing. . critically selects appropriate feedback to redraft text. justifies genre Genre Genres are types of multi-sentence oral or written text structures that have become conventionalised for particular purposes with expected organisational patterns, as well as language features related to register e.g., narrative, informational, persuasive, and multi-genre. Simply put, genre refers to a selection of writing forms in order to recount, explain, entertain, inform, give instructions, narrate, persuade and justify opinions. selected to create text for an intended purpose and audience Audience The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing. . Support materials for teachers Writing - Scríbhneoireacht Example of student work Writing - Scríbhneoireacht Relevant across all strands Example of student work Relevant across all strands Examples of children's language learning Linguistic Diversity-Young Interpreters Example of student work
