Name: Teaching Writing Strategies: Book 1
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Teaching Writing Strategies: Book 1

Description

Teaching Writing Strategies is a series of six books with the explicit, overarching aim of teaching the skills and strategies required to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of children’s writing. Within the series, they are taught to recognise, choose and use specific strategies. The focus is on the process, rather than on practising, in this instance, specific text types. To this end, priority is given to improving writing at the sentence level. There is a strong hands-on emphasis; that is, there is an expectation that the children will write to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.

Unlike many other writing workbooks, the desired outcome is to have the learners structuring correct, enriched sentences to more clearly convey ideas and information. The ultimate goal is for them to produce clear, precise writing for a specific purpose and to understand that proofreading and editing is an integral part of the writing process.

The books are divided into four sections:

Word choices
Sentence structure
Punctuation
Editing/proofreading

Curriculum Links: English, Key Stage 1, Year 1

Writing – Transcription

Add prefixes and suffixes.

Writing – Composition

Write sentences and re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense.

Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2, by joining clauses using ‘and’; beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark; and using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week and the personal pronoun ‘I’.

reviews

Great book for teaching writing. My students are able to write their own stories using these books. Good for comprehension skills too.
Amma Opoku, Tutor
Different genres and ideas
Helen James, Class Teacher