The document discusses a method called "Synchronised Sentences" which aims to improve students' writing skills. It identifies 18 different sentence types organized into a hierarchy. The goal is to have students master basic sentence skills step-by-step across all subjects. Teachers of all subjects are asked to reinforce these writing skills whenever possible to help students improve. When fully implemented across a school, this approach could help raise literacy levels and student self-esteem.

1. Synchronised Sentences Embedding Functional Writing skills across the curriculum.

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6. Although the same age, these students were never in the same class.

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11. Why are the Dutch so much better than the English?

12. … . because their coaches teach children ‘skills’ from a very early age

17. Like footballers, great writers are not artists but master craftsmen and women.

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27. A well informed spectator actively cheering their attempts to use their skills.