Writing training

• Praise
• Improve
• Plan

• If focuses on high value curricular targets related directly to pupil's writing. Links with APP.
• It aims to help pupils see editing as part of the writing process, rather than a negative experience of criticism and something that is only done by weak writers.
• It provides resources to support planning and independent editing in the class room.
• Training looks at assessment, referring to Assessment focuses and providing a way of identifying progress over a short space of time.

• Direct link to class work.
• Based on Assessment for learning meeting the pupil's immediate needs.
• Provides an audience for pupil's writing.
• Provides an opportunity to help pupil link targets across the curriculum.
• Provides oral feedback indicating success and next steps. The positive approach and clear discussion of next steps enable pupils to engage with the feedback.
• Provides oppotunities to discuss ideas, content, text features, sentence structure, including punctuation for meaning, word choice, etc
• Development of self help strategies
• The last part of the session provides opportunity to help the pupil plan the next piece of writing.

• Discussion of reading strategies
• Resources to support development of reading strategies
• Questioning skills
• Strategies to develop comprehension skills
• Development of study skills through Reciprocal Reading strategies
• Text structure (this also links with the writing element)

• Increase the pupil's range of reading strategies
• Develop more advanced reading skills of inference and deduction
• Makes explicit strategies pupils can use to develop their comprehension of texts
• Develop pupil's independent ability to interrogate texts to ensure understanding