Free Resources

• Lucian Freud: Lessons from art applied to the teaching of writing NEW
• 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'