The document discusses strategies for developing writing skills, including having clear goals, getting feedback, and practicing. It provides tips for writing skills like varying sentence structures, developing ideas in paragraphs, and choosing ambitious vocabulary. Overall, the document offers guidance on writing techniques to improve writing ability.

1. Writing

2.  What activities are young people best at
learning to do?
 Top 5 in 30 seconds

4. Why are students, especially boys, so
successful at learning how to play console
games?

5.  The point of what they are trying to achieve is
really clear and understood
 Every time they fail, they get instant
feedback (and don’t get upset!)
 Every time they get feedback, they have
another go

6.  The point of what they are trying to achieve is
really clear and understood
 Every time they fail, they get instant
feedback (and don’t get upset!)
 Every time they get feedback, they have
another go

7. Why are some students ‘good’ at English?

8. We are learning to...
- Understand our current performance and our
targets for improvement
- Control sentence types to make our writing
more exciting
Skills for Life: Resilience and Knowing how to
Learn

9. We are learning to...
- Understand what we did well
- How to improve
- How to do better sentences

10. Skilled 1) Show evidence of clear thinking and
writing ideas
will… 2) Write in accurate sentence structures
1)Show evidence of increasingly
original and developed thinking
2)Begin to vary sentence structures, eg
Excellent
using questions and short sentences
writing
3)Contain an increasing range of
will…
ambitious, interesting vocabulary
4)Start and end in an increasingly
interesting way

11.  Developing ideas and explanations into
greater detail
 Writing accurate, then varied, sentence
structures

12. Talk for a minute, without pause or hesitation,
on the topic of…
 - potatoes
 - things you’d find in a kitchen
 - frogs
 - cheese
 - hair

13. We are learning to...
- Vary our sentence structures in order to make
writing more lively
Aim for 4 Strategies...

14. Great ideas and content
Words
Sentences
Paragraphs / Structure

15. Great ideas and content
Words
Sentences
Paragraphs / Structure

16.  Choose something that really annoys you.
Explain why.

17.  Are you starting to think that my life sounds a
little bit dull? You’d be dead right.

18.  What do I want to achieve this year? That’s a
good question.

19.  Do I have the sort of life that’s full of
ambition, excitement and aspiration? To be
honest, no.

20.  Do I have the sort of life that’s full of
ambition, excitement and aspiration? Nope!

21.  Do I have the sort of life that’s full of
ambition, excitement and aspiration? A head
full of dreams about becoming a world
famous doctor, lawyer or politician? A
burning desire to fulfil my potential, to
experience everything life has to give?

22.  Do I have the sort of life that’s full of
ambition, excitement and aspiration? A head
full of dreams about becoming a world
famous doctor, lawyer or politician? A
burning desire to fulfil my potential, to
experience everything life has to give? Not
really.

23.  Do I have the sort of life that’s full of ambition,
excitement and aspiration? A head full of dreams
about becoming a world famous doctor, lawyer
or politician? A burning desire to fulfil my
potential, to experience everything life has to
give? Not really. But that doesn’t mean I’m just a
useless blob, lolling on the sofa whilst reality TV
rots my brain. Well, not all the time. I do have
things I want to achieve. Let me give you an
example...

24.  The teacher’s decision to set double
homework was both surprising and
distressing — surprising in that she had never
shown any interest in setting homework
before, distressing in that it was the last week
of term and no-one wanted to do it!

25.  The teacher’s decision to set double
homework was both surprising and
distressing — suprising in that she had never
shown any interest in setting homework
before, distressing in that it was the last
week of term and no-one wanted to do it!

26.  My main suggestion for how we should spend
the money is both clever and evil — clever in
that it would improve the school in many
ways, evil in that it will result in one person
taking overall power.

27.  My main suggestion for how we should spend
the money is both clever and evil — clever in
that it would improve the school in many
ways, evil in that it will result in one person
taking overall power.

28.  My main suggestion for how we should spend
the money is both clever and evil — clever in
that it would improve the school in many
ways, evil in that it will result in one person
taking overall power.

29.  My main suggestion for how we should spend
the money is both clever and evil — clever in
that it would improve the school in many
ways, evil in that it will result in one person
taking overall power.

30.  My main suggestion for how we should spend
the money is both clever and evil — clever in
that it would improve the school in many
ways, evil in that it will result in one person
taking overall power. Obviously, that person
would be me!

31.  The teachers could be told to tell good jokes,
give students cake and not talk so much —
three strategies that would improve the lives
of students a great deal.

32.  In my life I want to be honest, kind and
compassionate — three qualities that would
make sure I have a positive impact on those
around me.
To create a summative modifier, end a grammatically
complete segment of a sentence with a comma, . . . find
a noun that sums up the substance of the sentence, . . .
[and then] continue with a relative clause."
(Joseph M. Williams, Style: The Basics of Clarity and
Grace. Longman, 2003)

33.  Cherwell could install a swimming pool, an
amazing facility that would prove popular
with both students and staff.

34.  Cherwell could install a swimming pool, an
amazing facility that would prove popular
with both students and staff.

35.  In fact, I would like to be a train driver, an
essential job that means everyone can travel
from A to B.

36.  In fact, I would like to be a train driver, an
essential job that means everyone can
travel from A to B.

37.  In fact, I would like to be a train driver, an
essential job that means everyone can travel
from A to B.

39. "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my
career, I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six
times I've been trusted to take the game
winning shot and missed. I've failed over and
over and over in my life. And that's why I
succeed!" - Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan – It’s my fault

40.  Choose something that annoys you and
explain why.

41.  Something that annoys me? Where do I start!
I would go for...........
 Another reason is, ........................
 Also, don’t forget that.............
 In conclusion, .......................

42. Great ideas and content
Words
Sentences
Paragraphs / Structure

43. Skilled efforts will 1. Include clear ideas which make sense
… 2. Write in accurate sentences
3. Choose some more ambitious words
Excellent efforts 1. Come up with original ideas and show
will… increasing development and precision
2. Show an increasing variety of sentence
structures
3. Choose some increasingly ambitious and
impressive vocabulary
4. Being and end in an unusual, thoughtful way