Shared writing invelves the teacher using a flipchart, overhead projector or interactive whiteboard to plan, write, explore and discuss a text in operation with the children. Working with the whole class means that children can not only hear the teacher’s views, but they can also hear other children’s contributions and evaluate them. As you write for children you are, of course, also demonstrating basic transcription details like writing from left to right, letter formation, use of capital and lawer case letters, using spaces between words and working out how to spell words by sound. However, you are most importantly making the link between writing and reading and, by supporting the transcription details of writing, you are giving children the space to make language decisions such as choosing appropriate vocabulary, choosing sentence structures and word order and choosing text conventions and layout.