As subject leaders, senior managers, English teachers and teaching assistants, you can use these resources to develop an understanding of how to develop pupils as writers and improve their enjoyment of and attainment in writing in Key Stage 3.
Find out about the challenges and skills of teaching writing and follow a route to improvement to help pupils improve their reading skills. You can also read about specific aspects of teaching writing, including the key issues within each topic, steps and approaches for addressing particular challenges, and adapt the suggested process for development and action to suit your pupils' needs.
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Improving writing in KS3
Heads of department, subject leaders and English teachers can use these materials to find out the challenges and skills of teaching writing, and follow a route to improvement to help pupils improve their writing skills. This is part of 'Improving writing', which supports pupils through Key Stage 3 of secondary English.
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Adapting writing conventions
See how the Framework for secondary English relates to teaching writing conventions. Use the strands and substrands to help pupils understand conventions and develop their own writing.
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Improving boys’ writing
Boys can encounter a number of issues and difficulties when learning to write in the classroom. Find out about these challenges and use the questions to develop ideas about how to engage boys and develop their writing skills.
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Building a bridge from reading to writing
Find out how pupils’ reading habits can have an impact on their writing development, and why reading practice is not always a solution.
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Writing for real, purposeful and relevant contexts
Read about the benefits of this teaching focus, along with the key issues and challenges that teachers and their departments often face. There are links to resources, example activities and advice to support independent learning.
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Improving writing through ICT
ICT is a key part of learning, and supporting and extending the development of pupils’ writing skills and knowledge. Find out about the dual functions of ICT, as a mode of communication and mode of teaching and learning.
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Improving writing through marking and response
Find out more about marking and how it can help pupils to improve their writing skills. This includes using marking to identify learning gaps and identify pupil progression.
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Planning to improve writing
Find out how to plan for improving pupils’ writing by planning for progression and development, which can be achieved by revisiting writing tasks over a period of time.
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Punctuation
Read about the results of a QCA study highlighting poor punctuation performance in schools. Find out about the criteria pupils must meet at levels 1 and 2 and the skills needed to progress further.
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Writing and special educational needs
Make a positive impact on special educational needs (SEN) pupils with these teaching approaches, aimed at helping pupils who are not working at the level of their peers or in line with expectations.
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Improving writing through talk
Find out about the role of talk in developing writing. Refer to the Framework for secondary English to see the strands and substrands which include talk-related learning objectives across Years 7, 8 and 9.
