<p><strong>'This is a brilliant, user-friendly resource. It offers a wealth of suggestions for stimulating the development of Key Stage 2 writing skills. It is written to meet the requirements of the new national curriculum for English, and provides activities which the children will enjoy doing.'</strong><em>- Liz Rhodes, Primary Teacher Update</em></p>

Let’s Write offers a wealth of suggestions for approaches to developing primary school pupils’ writing skills that will capture the children’s interest, while enabling them to improve their ability to express themselves in writing. It aims to meet the requirements of the new national curriculum for English at KS2 in a way that will develop the children’s standard of writing by presenting activities that they will find enjoyable and stimulating.Throughout the book, the emphasis is on providing activities that will engage the pupils in a discussion of how texts are structured, before producing their own writing. John Foster suggests a range of imaginative tasks that both literacy specialists and non-specialists will find useful in developing children’ ability to write coherently and correctly.Let’s Write includes: a clear explanation of the writing process with activities designed to improve pupils’ drafting skills examples of the different types of writing for pupils to analyse, which they can use as models for their own writing a range of imaginative ideas for writing tasks, together with suggestions of curriculum opportunities for practising particular forms writing challenges which can be used to stretch more able writers and thus to introduce differentiation by task, as well as by outcome writing tips, for example, on sentence structure and paragraph structure, appropriate to the different types of writing activities involving pupils in the assessment of their writing a section on writing correctly, focussing on grammar, spelling and punctuation a section containing games and activities designed to extend pupils’ vocabulary.Let’s Write provides teachers with a lively collection of resources that will be welcomed by teachers and that will help to develop children’s writing.
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Introduction. The Writing Process 1. Personal Writing Autobiography. Diaries. Journals. Letters. Messages. Recounts 2. Persuasive Writing Advertisements. Arguments. Blurbs. Letters. Reviews 3. Information Writing Biographies. Descriptions. Directions. Explanations. Instructions. Recipes. Reports. Summaries 4. Creative Writing Stories. Playscripts. Poetry. Jokes. Tongue-Twisters 5. Writing Correctly Grammar. Spelling. Punctuation 6. Vocabulary Building 7. Setting Targets
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ISBN
9781138134171
Publisert
2015-11-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
520 gr
Høyde
297 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
186

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John Foster taught English for twenty years before becoming a full-time writer. He has written over 100 books for classroom use and is a highly regarded children’s poet, anthologist and poetry performer.