WRITING: Just writing words...

Last few times we tried to write a story with Oliver, he really enjoyed the idea and was very keen, so I was going to, kind of let him get on with it, but I found that he couldn't quite keep up with all that was going on in his head.  Well, it was still useful, but would have been much more so, had he been less hesitant a writer.  So, for that reason, I'm now getting him to write down some words, instead.  One line of each word.  I'm hoping that this would teach him how to combine different letters automatically, without thinking, get in a habit of writing and stop him forgetting the letters that he doesn't use very often.  Another benefit that I can see,  is that if we echo the words he encounters in his reading it might help him to learn the patters e.g 'like - bike' and many many more.