Writing Straategies PLC

Literacy – writing strategies

•Write a lively article with the title ‘The Joys of Exercise’ for a magazine for people of your age. •Imagine you win two tickets to visit the National Marine Aquarium Write a letter to a friend persuading him or her to go with you.•Write a review of a book, film or music CD for a magazine which is read by people of your age (Your review should include: details about the book, film or CD you have chosen; comments on its strengths, if any; comments on its weaknesses, if any; a clear recommendation).•The Rough guide is a guide-book for tourists which prides itself on giving frank and honest opinions about places, both the positive and negative. Write an entry about a place you know well for The Rough Guide, including details the tourist board would like visitors to see, but also providing an insider’s view of any less attractive features. •A local businessman has applied for permission to hold an outdoor music festival in your area. Write a letter to your local newspaper either supporting or opposing this idea.

TAP

•Type – What form of writing it is (e.g. a report / leaflet)

•Audience – Who it is written for

•Purpose – Why is has been written

Using the grid as a starting point, note down any

instances where you might use a certain type of writing in

your subject.

These are the rules that we apply in English. How do they need to be adapted to suit the

needs of your subject?

If you want to:

•Be heard

•Get noticed

•Hook your reader

Go through a forest . . .

lliteration / anecdote

act

pinion

hetorical questions / repetition

motive language

tatistics and quotes

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  Teacher Pupil

AF1:Write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful texts.

My writing is imaginative, interesting and thoughtful.

AF2:Produce texts which are appropriate to task, reader and purpose.

I am able to write for different purposes and audiences according to the task set.

AF3:Organise and present whole texts effectively, sequencing and structuring information, ideas and events.

I can plan my writing and produce texts that sequence ideas, information and events within an appropriate structure.

AF4:Construct paragraphs and use cohesion within and between paragraphs.

I can use topic sentences and linking sentences to guide my reader through the text.

AF5:

Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effect.

I can use different types of sentences, simple, compound and complex, according to purpose and to create specific effects.

AF6:Write with technical accuracy of syntax and punctuation in phrases, clauses and sentences.

I am able to use different types of punctuation to make meaning clear to my reader.

AF7:Select appropriate and effective vocabulary.

I can select and use a range of vocabulary, making choices according to purpose and audience.

AF8: Use correct spelling. I can spell accurately.

Writing Assessment Focuses

Look at the examples of pupil work. Have writing skills been explicitly taught? What needs

to be a focus?

Look at the strategies for weak writers. Select the three that are most applicable to your subject and briefly discuss

ideas.

Look at the strategies for extending writing. Select the three that are most applicable

to your subject and briefly discuss ideas.