FOCUS LEARNING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS COURSE

WRITING SKILLS

Here are some resources you may find useful for teaching writing skills in Focus Schools.

If you have any resources of your own, please share them with colleagues by e-mailing them to the LCS Resource Bank Co-ordinator at focustandl@hotmail.co.uk (or click on the link above). Alternatively, you can upload them directly onto this website yourself. E-mail the LCS Resource Bank co-ordinator for details of how to do this.

Writing Skills Student text

Writing in Structured Paragraphs students text

Organising Ideas in Paragraphs student text

Writing Letters student text

Writing Reports student text

Writing Skills teachers' notes

Writing Skills Posters

PEE poster

PIE poster

Paragraph Connectives poster

Writing Skills Exercises & Activities

Paragraphing Skills 1, 2 and 3Here are the Zone of Relevance templates and sample cards. For more information about how these can be used to increase effective writing at KS3 (and above), click on the link to Christine Counsell's website below.

Zone of Relevance 5 card template

Zone of Relevance 6 card templateZone of Relevance Fire of London causation cards

Here is a useful set of words that you could expect KS3 AGT students to spell and use correctly: