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Little Hill Primary School

Little Hill Primary School

Little Hill Primary School

Writing

We have adopted “The Write Stuff” by Jane Considine to bring clarity to the mechanics of writing.  “The Write Stuff” follows a method called “Sentence Stacking” which refers to the fact that sentences are stacked together and organised to engage children with short, intensive moments of learning that they can then immediately apply to their own writing.  An individual lesson is based on a sentence model, broken in to three chunks: 

  1. Initiate section – a stimulus to capture the children’s imagination and set up a sentence. 
  2. Model section – the teacher close models a sentence that outlines clear writing features and techniques. 
  3. Enable section – the children write their sentence, following the model. 

“The Write Stuff” also reinforces grammar through the use of: 

The FANTASTICs which is an acronym that summarises the ideas of writing 
The Grammar Rainbow is a classroom tool that enables the teacher to drive key grammar messages. 
The BOOMTASTIC which helps children capture 10 ways of adding drama and poetic devices to writing in a vivid visual way.