When undertaking any shared writing, there will always be a great many features to which you can usefully draw attention. Decide which objectives you will focus on and refer back to them during the Shared reading. This helps you to make clear teaching points to the children. You may find it useful to have your objectives written on a wall poster so that you can check whether you have you have addressed them at the end of the shared writing. When starting a piece of shared writing, it is important to examine the problem – what type of text are you writing? What is this sort of text for? Who might read this type of text? What will the reader look for or expect? You may want to include this in your planning. Otherwise, planning may involve collecting and organizing ideas. Planning may take a whole shared writing session and will usually involve writing notes and sentence fragments, although there will be times when you will list whole sentences. When discussing writing and language, use appropriate language terms and aim to be clear and accurate. It is, of course, essential that you understand fully the text type you are dealing with and the language features you will encounter.