Writing Skills Booklets

Five weeks worth of writing skills to practise independently. These can be used as a starter activity when pupils come in at the start of the morning, at the start of an English lesson as a starter or at any other spare moment during the day or even as a short intervention with a child or particular group of children. The activities over the week work on different skills around writing. These are similar across the booklets so far and include:

• Putting capital letters and full stops in the right place
• Completing ideas so they become full sentences
• Using because, but and so to complete sentences
• Writing their own independent sentences
• Using other conjunctions within a sentence
• Creating sentences that use particular punctuation to mark the end
• Editing and improving sentences

There is also a themed booklet included with all the writing tasks for the week linked to thunder storms. This has been used to support a writing unit for a setting description that involves a storm but can also be used as a general resource.

Over time, more booklets will continue to be added that work on different skills alongside the ones previously mentioned.