Writing Box 3 for 9 - 14+ years.

Writing Prompts is a high-interest, 3-box series that provides supplementary materials to support the classroom writing programme. These high-interest cards encourage children to express their creativity while learning how to write using a variety of styles. The cards can be used for independent work,

whole-class discussions, small group work and most cards contain questions that will generate classroom discussions. A great resource for teaching the composition dimension of the programmes of study for writing

Each box contains 200 writing cards, divided into 3 categories:

•Imaginative - Narrative, Poetry

•Informative - Procedure, Recount, Report, Narrative

•Persuasive - Exposition

Learning Outcomes:

Aims

•Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language

•Write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences

•Use discussion in order to learn

Writing

•Effective composition involves forming, articulating and communicating ideas, and then organising them coherently for a reader. This requires clarity, awareness of the audience, purpose and context, and an increasingly wide knowledge of vocabulary and grammar.

Lower key stage 2