This course helps teachers develop strategies to take their Key Stage 2 pupils beyond scaffolded writing, building confidence and self-assessment skills and providing a structure for pupils to tackle writing challenges across different text types.
"Participating pupils made approximately nine months’ additional progress compared to similar pupils who did not participate in the intervention."
EEF, Using Self-Regulation to Improve Writing, 2014
Improving writing in Key Stage 2 is aimed at teachers and literacy leaders working in Key Stage 2.
A class visit provides an excellent opportunity for pupils to explore a learning environment outside the classroom, to spark their imagination and to provide them with a memory they want to write about.
Discover methods to support the organisation of pupils' writing in any form and across all subject areas. Helping pupils internalise the IPEELL approach enables them to transfer their skills to any writing task.
Learn how to support pupils' meta-cognitive skills so that they are able to identify success criteria for a piece of writing and accurately assess the extent to which they have met the criteria and any areas that could be improved.
Motivational messages are used successfully in a wide range of contexts, particularly in sport, but rarely in more academic subjects. Discover the power of this approach in creating positive attitudes for your pupils when used in writing tasks.
In alignment with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) school guide to implementation, this CPD does not treat implementing change as an event but instead as a process with every aspect planned and executed in stages.
The course is available in a 1.5 day version, with days spread across one or two terms to allow time for action research.
Day 1
Day 2 (half day)
To promote collaborative practice, we encourage two teachers including the literacy lead from each school to participate.
*existing National Literacy Trust Members receive a £50 discount per school
We are always looking for enthusiastic schools across the UK to host our training programmes. We ask you to:
In return, we offer a complimentary place on the course. This is also a great opportunity for you to position yourself as a research-led school.
Consider becoming a member of the National Literacy Trust to access our full library of downloadable resources and evaluation tools.
Read more about children’s and young people’s enjoyment of writing in 2016, taken from our seventh annual literacy survey.
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A summary of the 12 key classroom approaches found to help transform young people’s writing and embed formative assessment.
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10 writing exercises that use football to engage young people with writing.
Applications are now open for the third round of DfE funding that can help groups of schools develop targeted literacy provision to improve school performance and pupil attainment. Find out how we can help as a provider of CPD and other expert support.