Year 11 AQA writing skills set of 2 lessons

Lesson 1: AQA mark scheme is analysed by students before attempting a GCSE style task.
Students are given the choice between a foundation task and a higher task.
Students are given 30 minutes to complete the task and they then peer-assess each other using the AQA mark scheme printed for them.

Lesson 2 : Improving writing skills. Students reflects on WWW/EBI of their writing task.
I have then created examples of answers for grades 1/ 3 / 5 for the foundation task and grades 5 / 7 / 9 for the higher task.
Students have to complete a range of activities on the model answers.
They need to identify key elements in each answer and they have to grade each of the model answers justifying their grading.
After students have understood the success criteria they have to design their own model answer to the writing task.
All activities are done in ability groups. Answers created in groups should then be peer- assessed by another group. teacher to photocopy and give exemplar model answer to all students ( once it has been marked ).