Creating a common Language across the school

Writing an Essay

How is writing currently taught in schools?

Reliance on English

Texas & Planning template

Journal writing

Common approaches across primary school

Hard to reach consensus.

HGHS did a survey - Had 10 mins to write a piece of writing

What the data revealed? 

The data analysed - the girls can write but not writing with accuracy & fluency. They could only write in simple full sentences. Every student had 16% f their sentences not full sentences. They were not using punctuation, variant beginning sentence.

What do you want your students to know and be able to do in writing?

Some basic rules and proof reading.

Year 9 - Framework

Entire piece of 350 - 400

Introduction - 3 sentences

2 paragraphs - linear, compare & contrast

Summary - 4 sentences

Every year level had sentence focus 

Year 9 

The simple sentence

The very short Sentence

The Red, White and Blue

The Adverb Start

General Writing all levels

Get students to edit their own work- they should

Fix grammar. Capitals!!

Correct spelling, including key subject terms.

If the sentence is over 2 lines typed

Suggestions-

Do things in bits rather than bombarding with too much of information, nothing over whelming.