Writing at Key Stages Four and Five

Exploring Writing In The Training Context

Here are some activities for use with student teachers to develop their knowledge and skills in the teaching of writing. These have been successfully used on our training course and are linked to the following five areas.

1. Ways into writing through knowledge of teenage fiction
2. Exploring genre, audience and purpose
3. Writing at Key Stages 4 and 5: following on from the NLS Framework
4. Collaborative writing
5. Improving the writing of students learning English as an additional language