Teachers should be asking themselves: What will children write? What is the intended purpose of their writing? Who is the intended audience for their writing? Identifying a motivating audience and purpose is the key to good writing – knowing what the publishing stage is going to look like will inform all the other elements of writing process. Start with the end point in mind is a useful maxim. When planning a unit of writing, and when children are planning their own writing, a purpose for the writing should be identified. The IES’s practice guide ‘Teaching Elementary School Students To Be Effective Writers’ has this to say about planning: “Writing well… is a process that requires that the writer think carefully about the purpose for writing, plan what to say, plan how to say it, and understand what the reader needs to know.”īut there is a word that perhaps isn’t always considered at the teachers’ planning stage, a word which is very important when it comes to developing those parts of the writing process that perhaps aren’t being given the time they need. In fact, there were very few examples of how the other stages were being taught.Īctually, the stages that are commonly focused on are important. In a recent training session, when I asked a group of school leaders and teachers to write down elements of current practice in their own schools for the teaching of writing, we found that most of the time was spent on planning, drafting and editing. The writing process, according to the EEF’s ‘ Improving Literacy In Key Stage 2’ guidance report, can be broken down into 7 stages: Planning, Drafting, Sharing, Evaluating,Revising, Editing and Publishing. And there are certain parts of the writing process which are either misunderstood or don’t always get a look in because of time constraints. It’s so difficult to make sure that everything is covered. Even under the umbrella of English there is handwriting, spelling, grammar, punctuation, composition, reading, and more. ![]() Time in a primary classroom is at a premium: there are so many things to try to fit in.
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