Y10: Narrative Writing SOW

The scheme is designed to support students with the planning of narrative writing, with a particular focus on the AQA specification.

There are six stages in the scheme:

1. An Introduction. This is aiming to motivate and engage pupils in the scheme by developing the group dynamic through shared interests. It also gives pupils to connect their learning to something they enjoy. It’s then very explicitly stated why they need to learn this and connects it to the GCSE exam paper. There is a simplified version of the mark scheme so that students engage with it and are able to use it with their own work.
2. Planning Our Writing based on Jennifer Webb’s book ‘Teach like a Writer’. Her planning process is based on Jacob Ross’ Short Stories structures. It teaches students how to write premises, build them to plots, develop settings and characters and think about the writing process. The stage is filled with clear information about how to write like a writer.
3. Putting it all together. Students have a plan and writing model lesson, followed by doing their own. This can be used for diagnosing pupils strengths and targets before you teach the skills lessons so that you can focus on your class’s area of need.
4. Developing Character with a focus on AO5 content skills. Students are explicitly taught the 5 senses, ambitious vocabulary, and how to create similes, metaphors and personification. It also goes through alliteration for effect. Following each taught skill, students are asked to use this to improve their character description.
5. Developing Setting with a focus on AO6 technical accuracy skills. Students are taught common sentence errors, different sentence types and different sentence starters for effect. They use these skills to improve their description of setting.
6. Developing Endings with a focus on AO5 organisation skills. Students look at the structure of paragraphs and different ending styles. They are asked to experiment with their endings to improve their work.

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