Murray Gadd - Writing Inspiration

We have been continuing to focus on our quality writing and last week Mrs De Buyzer and I attended a course and writing lesson observation with Mr Murray Gadd. He demonstrated to us an exciting and interesting lesson based on "Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type" by Doreen Cronin. As a result of this lesson we have used this story in our motivation for writing persuasive arguments.
We began by discussing what we need to do when we persuade someone and the different techniques we can use to persuade them.
We then read this excellent story which looks at how the animals on Farmer Brown's farm get their demands met.
From this we have begun to write our own arguments from the perspective of a farm animal. The children have come up with their demands, the reasons for their demands and the consequences of their demands not being met.
I continue to be impressed by the depth of thinking and the quality of the writing in Ruma Matai. As the work is finished I will post it for you all to read.