Guidance and Support for ICT Coordinators from the Nottinghamshire School Improvement Service

Writing support pages

 


Target statements for Writing

A list of year-by-year statements drawn together from the NLS Framework for teaching with a particular focus on writing. This resource would be useful for co-ordinators to share with teachers.

 

Writing in Context

This document is published by QCA to support the teachers' planning. In planning for curriculum coverage, teachers can link work in the Literacy hour with work in other curriculum areas.
Extremely useful for all Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers.


Teaching writing: narrative, poetry and plays (Reception to Year 6)
 

Non-fiction writing case studies
(Reception to Year 6)


Sentence Learning Journeys

This resource is invaluable for those teaching simple sentences, it can be used as posters for display or as an interactive resource.




 


Information guides to writing


Shared writing

Guided writing

Sustained and extended writing

(link to Information Guides for all areas of the Literacy hour.)


Key pointers for young writers

Some useful advice for Key Stage One writers looking for extra tips to simplify the writing process


Marking guidelines for Writing

These guidelines, produced in collaboration between the NLS and the  QCA, suggest ways of analysing children's writing to obtain more diagnostic information about either individual's or groups of children's writing.

marking guideline for writing (pdf)

blank analysis sheet
 


The trouble with copywriting

Advice from Newsletter 12 on the effective teaching of writing for teachers with children in the early stages of development in writing.


Quality texts for the teaching of writing
(Years 3 to 6)
Newly extended to Lower Key Stage Two

 


Improving writing advice: Moving from Level 2A to Level 3
This advice first appeared in newsletter 12 in Spring 2001. It will be most useful to Year 2 teachers


Year Three Term One Planning Exemplification

In this unit of work, the children will learn to use contents and index pages and to extract information about ‘Teeth and eating’ from different types of non-fiction texts, including ICT texts. After analysing a non-chronological report, they will write a report on the subject of ‘Teeth and eating’ (paying particular attention to the use of commas in lists and the correct spelling of content words and those with prefixes and long vowels). This unit has been linked specifically to the QCA Science scheme of work, Unit 3A, ‘Teeth and eating’.

 

 

The writing flyers

Ten fliers which focus on strategies to improve writing linked to the work done by Sue Palmer.

  1. Improving writing
  2. Narrative
  3. Poetry
  4. Playscripts
  5. Recount: It happened like this ...
  6. Instructions: Here's one I made earlier ...
  7. Non-chronological report: Telling it like it is ... or was
  8. Explanation: Cause and effect ...
  9. Persuasion: Stating your case ...
  10. Discussion: Points of view ...