Key aspects of The Write Stuff system include:
The Write Stuff builds pupils’ confidence with sentence structure.
🌟 The approach widens the repertoire of writing options for pupils.
🌟 Pupils gain an understanding of the ‘whole’ piece that they are writing.
🌟 Organisation of their ideas and cohesion between them is strengthened.
Key benefits of The Write Stuff training include:
🌟 Support for teachers so that they have a deeper and more flexible knowledge of sentence structure.
🌟 Pupils who understand how to apply sentence scaffolds to their independent writing as they develop their expertise.
🌟 Standards improve because many worked examples are provided over the year that extend understanding through a wide range of genres and non-fiction text types.
🌟 Children have a clear view of what high quality writing looks like and their learning is structured clearly and misconceptions dealt with.
🌟 Pupils know how to improve their writing and make it more focussed and actionable feedback is provided to guide their learning.
🌟 Children have a concept of how to build, plan and complete a piece of writing due to narrative maps and non-fiction shapes.
🌟 Teachers have clear pathways of how to guide pupils in weak areas such as cohesion and paragraphs.
Jane Considine explains how to teach a unit of work as mapped out in the corresponding lesson plan. This is a mixture of sentence stacking days and 'experience days.
Year 3- Star in the Jar
Year 4- Iron Man
Year 5- Nowhere Emporium
Year 6- The Firework Maker's Daughter
