Free Resources
- Beyond Acrostics
- Helping pupils to develop more effective characters in their writing
- Making 'setting' effective: strategies to improve pupils' locational writing
- Beyond 'Happily ever after': Improving the ending of narrative texts
- Improving narrative openings: an explicit teaching approach
- Improving Key Stage 2 pupils critical reading of narrative texts through retrospective storyboards and narrative analysis frames
- Developing story writing in the infant classroom
- Helping able writers at Key Stage 2: Enrichment strategies
- Helping able writers at Key Stage 2: Enhancement strategies
- Improving newspaper article writing using pupil self assessment grids and 'Ideas drafting' grids
- Practical strategies for developing active listening with Primary School pupils
- Raising the cognitive level of 'Hotseating' and applying it across the curriculum
- Writing explanations An excerpt from"Improving non - fiction writing in Key Stage 2. Beyond Writing Frames" by Margaret McNeil and Alan Peat
- Family Poems Sample poems and Teacher's notes from the Key Stage 1 Poetry Pack
- Teaching Paragraphing: A whole school approach Sheila Calder, Wallbrook Primary School, Coseley, (Dudley LEA)
- Raising writing standards by appealing to pupils with mathematical learning preferences in literacy lessons
- Deconstruction Text
- Getting Unstuck with Creative Writing Janice Robinson, Ridgeway Primary School
- Writing Exciting Sentences - BOYS
- Alternatives to Music in a Muslim school’s writing sessions. Eiman Yousif, Dubai )
- The Far Eastern Art Of Haiku
- Motivating reluctant writers : Using free internet-based comic makers NEW
Teaching and Learning
- Creativity - friendly questioning: principles and techniques
- Learning: too serious to be taken seriously. Using humour as a classroom tool
- Seven goals of the 'Wow' factor classroom. The 'Wow' factor! Embracing the benefits of 'Edutainment'