KS3 Non-Fiction Writing Scheme Cambridge IGCSE Skills Town Planning

The idea of this scheme is to expose students to IGCSE type questions and skills (albeit without an explicit focus on it) over the course of the scheme. The theme of the scheme is town planning. Students will create their ideal town, and over the course of the scheme they will add more details to it.

The scheme covers the following skills:

• Answering IGCSE comprehension questions.
• Descriptions of character.
• Creation of atmosphere.
• Non-fiction writing of advertisements.
• Blog posts.
• Using existing texts to create new texts.
• Understanding voice, and features of different non-fiction.

Bonus Skills:

• The scheme looks at protest art and song because half way through the scheme a road will be built in the town that the students have grown to love. This is a very fun moment, as students love creating their own protests.
• It has a focus on creative writing through looking at the creation of a town identity.
• Increased focus on comprehension can be created through asking comprehension questions about any of the texts from the booklet. There are also starter slides in a separate ppt focusing on developing IGCSE style comprehension skills.

This involves a lot of lessons where students will just be writing, so regular feedback is important, but due to the extended periods of writing their should be time to get in their books.

It is quite a long scheme but it gives a chance to develop key skills. The baseline assessment at the start will work well to do a comparative assessment at the end. The comparative assessment can use a Cambridge IGCSE past paper Q1A-E, 2A-C and a Question 3 response that will utilise all non-fiction skills.

The Scheme folder contains a 32 page resource booklet, however, you may choose to print some resources individually. It also contains over 70 slides with success criteria and learning objectives.