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  Action plan and testing ideas/Implementation Heidi Songs Now that I have some tamariki underway with some basic sounds and formation, we are looking at how to gain independence in writing, using what we know as well as alphabet supports. Alongside that, to support oral language, we are doing some writing work alongside colourful semantics, and I also have two senior boys who are coming over for part of that process. Initially we are using Big Books. Colourful Semantics is useful for tamariki who may find ordering and sequencing their language difficult, and it has been a good tool for my tamariki to process the 5Ws and construct a sentence that makes sense. We are using sentence strips after we read our Big Book to identify the the who, the what doing etc. To quote Number Agent's Leslee Allen: " If you have read any of my other posts on writing, you will know that I greatly value colourful semantics as a framework for building sentences. Much of what I have learned over the...