Over the past 12 months at Academy Transformation Trust we have been exploring effective models of teaching writing throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. We’ve explored several resources and been fortunate enough to work with a range of experts who have been generous in sharing their time and expertise, including Sarah Green, Alex Quigley, Andrew Percival and Jess Rennie.
Our Academy Transformation Trust English Community of Practice have begun by considering Recommendations 4 and 5 of the Improving Literacy in Key Stage 2 Guidance report as our collective starting point.
When reviewing the key question, ‘What do the ‘best bets’ tell us about how to teach writing effectively?’ we soon realised that we are actually asking an enormous range of questions including (but not limited to) how best to effectively teach: vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, grammar, text types, genres, sentence construction, authorial craft and intent – the list goes on! Returning to The Simple View of Writing in the EEF Guidance Report has really supported us in considering which aspect of writing we are focusing on developing, whether that is relating to: Text generation, Transcription or Executive function. This model has really enabled us to redefine our intentions in our lesson planning and classroom delivery more specifically.
