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Example of a working wall on 'Animalium' by Jenny Bloom and Katie Scott. Thanks to Stokenham Area Primary School for sharing.

Outcome
This section suggests a description of what the children will have written by the end of the sequence.
Elicitation task
This is a writing task that can be used to identify starting points for the text type. It needs to be completed before the children start the sequence so that their writing can be analysed and the sequence adapted in light of the children's needs. Support should be given in terms of the content to be written about but not how it is written. Tasks need to be engaging and the children need to have something to say.

This writing is used alongside the outcome to identify progress across the sequence. (See our free writing assessment grids for each primary phase.)

The medium term plan lists the objectives from England's national curriculum that are covered in the sequence. Age-related learning outcomes are detailed criteria about what the children will have used in their writing to help teachers make judgements about the writing. There are statements for 'Expected' and 'Greater Depth'. They are expressed with the impact first and the device second, e.g.

persuade by positioning the reader through use of adverbs, or

signal to the reader when things happened through the use of time adverbials

The purpose of this stage is to capture the children's interest and help them get to know the text really well. This is through both 'reading as a reader' - exploring and sharing personal responses to what they read - and through 'reading as a writer' - recognising and investigating the features the writer uses to engage and manipulate the reader. It often will involve some form of learning and remembering of trickier or interesting sections to be used as an initial model for writing.

Each sequence will contain some or all of these:

a hook into the text

reading and responding to the text

comprehension activities

retelling the text

talking about the text

in role in the text/drama

vocabulary work

analysing the text

grammar in context

identifying the structure of the text

These activities often contain some element of writing to record process, outcome or learning.

During this stage, children need to try out the elements of writing they are less sure of so that they can use this experience when writing independently. This means they need opportunites to play around with the language and structures they've been learning about and will be supported by their teacher(s).

In teaching sequences, this section tends to include many of the following:

generating ideas to write about and one idea chosen

a shared activity to generate content for the chosen content

recording key ideas alongside the structure of the text

telling and talk to generate the text

story mapping the text where necessary

Shared writing supports...

modelling writing the text, usually in sections applying learning from the first phase

children writing their own version of the text using the class idea

editing writing

proof-reading writing.

Children choose their own content to write about and collect ideas. These can then be recorded on the text structure chart as one method of planning, but individual sequences may suggest a number of alternative ways to plan and organise a piece of writing.

Children write their text using proof-reading and editing to improve it.

The writing is compared with the elicitation task to identify where progress has been made so that it is clear to the child.

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