Quality Texts for the
Teaching of Writing
Standards site pages for Quality Texts for the Teaching of Writing
Year Three
Text: I Never Saw a Purple Cow -Emma Chichester Clark
T6. to compare forms or types of humour,
T7. to select, prepare, read aloud and recite by heart poetry that plays with language or entertains; to recognise rhyme, alliteration and other patterns of sound that create effects;
T15. to write poetry that uses sound to create effects,
Text: Letters from a Mouse - Herbie Brennan
T16. to read examples of letters written for a range of purposes,
T20. to write letters, notes and messages linked to work in other subjects,
T23. to organise letters into simple paragraphs.
Year Four
Text type: Stories from other cultures
Text: The Peacock Garden and Other Stories Anita Desai
T1. To identify social, moral or cultural issues in stories, e.g. the dilemmas faced by characters or the moral of the story, and to discuss how the characters deal with them;
T2. To read stories from other cultures, by focusing on,
T11. To explore the main issues of a story by writing a story about a dilemma and the issues it raises for the character.
Year Five
Text type: novel from another culture
Text: Journey to Jo’burg Beverley Naidoo
T1 Investigate texts from different cultures considering patterns of relationships, social customs, attitudes and beliefs:
. identify these features with reference to the text;. consider and evaluate these features in relation to their own
experience.
Year Six
Text type: comparing two versions of a fantasy theme
Texts:
King Midas from The Orchard Book of Greek Myths Retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
Midas from Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes
T6 To look at connections and contrasts in the work of different writers.
T14 To write an extended story, worked on over time on a theme identified in reading.
Text type: reference texts linked to ICT
Text: Encarta (Microsoft CD-ROM)
T17 to appraise a text quickly and effectively, to retrieve information from it; to find information quickly and evaluate its value;
T22 to select the appropriate style and form to suit a specific purpose and audience drawing on knowledge of different non-fiction text types.
