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Writing support pages
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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.
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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.
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Teaching writing: narrative, poetry and plays (Reception to Year 6)
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Non-fiction writing case studies
(Reception to Year 6)
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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.
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Information guides to writing
Shared writing
Guided writing
Sustained and extended writing
(link to Information Guides
for all areas of the Literacy hour.)
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Key pointers for
young writers
Some useful advice for Key Stage One writers looking for extra tips to
simplify the writing process
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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
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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.
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Quality texts for the teaching of writing
(Years 3 to 6)
Newly extended to Lower Key Stage Two
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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
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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’.
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The writing flyers
Ten fliers which focus on strategies to improve writing linked to the
work done by Sue Palmer.
- Improving writing
- Narrative
- Poetry
- Playscripts
- Recount: It happened like this ...
- Instructions: Here's one I made earlier ...
- Non-chronological report: Telling it like it is ... or was
- Explanation: Cause and effect ...
- Persuasion: Stating your case ...
- Discussion: Points of view ...
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