Writing: Articles and resources to help you with your school’s action plan

In this blogpost, we are going to share articles and resources which we think can help you with your school’s action plan.

  • The first article is about the importance of developing a whole-school vision for writing teaching [LINK].
  • Next, we have an article which challenges you and your colleagues to consider what sort of writing teachers you are and want to be [LINK]. 
  • This article shares the 14 principles of effective writing teaching. This can help you evaluate your school’s current approach to writing against evidence-based research recommendations [LINK].
  • This resource will help your staff audit their existing practice against these 14 principles of effective writing teaching. This is a great place to start and is something we routinely do during our school residency training with schools [LINK].
  • You can invite teachers to consider how well they are currently meeting the EYFS Early Learning Goals and STA Writing Framework Statements (including the greater-depth statements) by using this audit. If there are certain statements teachers are routinely finding hard to achieve, we have supplied a list of teaching practices and resources which will help. Again, this is something we typically use during our school residency training with schools [LINK].
  • You may find these handouts useful. They explain what the KS1 and KS2 STA Writing Statements really mean and how they can be achieved [KS1 – LINK] [KS2LINK]. 
  • It’s also important to investigate the thoughts and feelings of your pupils. Our Children As Writers survey helps you collect valuable data and even provides you with a report, suggesting certain teaching practices to help you improve your teaching [LINK].
  • Finally, we share guidance on teaching writing and the new Ofsted framework [LINK].

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Don’t forget that we provide INSET and residency training. Please get in touch if this is something you’re interested in.

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