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Improving writing: Day 2 – professional development meeting (PDM) outline
Aims of the day and resources for the professional development meeting (PDM) on 'Embedding guided writing as an integral part of quality first teaching'.Improving reading: Day 2 – Professional development meeting (PDM) outline
Aims for the PDM 'Effective practice in guided reading' for improving reading.Improving reading: Day 1
Information on day 1 of the Improving reading continuous professional development theme, which is aimed specifically at schools that wish to address the teaching of reading across the school.Improving Writing: Day 1
CPD theme aimed specifically at schools that wish to address the teaching of writing, particularly guided writing across the school. The day 1 materials are designed to allow the tailoring of the materials to cover Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 or to combine these age ranges. Includes links to CPD outlines, PowerPoint presentations, handouts and resources.Early reading: Day 1
Early reading CPD materials to support teachers and practitioners in implementing the recommendations of the Rose Report. Includes links to CPD outlines, handouts and resources.Text type: Poetry
An overview of narrative, which includes information on the range of poetry, a table showing the relationship between generic structure, language features and knowledge for the writer and links to units by year group. Poetry helps children become familiar with language techniques and make increasingly effective use of wordplay to explore and develop ideas.Text type: Non-fiction
An overview of non-fiction, with information on the guidance provided for each text type that falls under non-fiction.Pupil progress
Introduction to Support for Writing materials, using steps in learning, pupil writing targets, and text types guidance. Also included are links to a range of documents.Pupil writing targets
Pupil Writing Targets focus on high value strands of objectives that make the greatest difference to improving writing attainment. They support teachers who have identified specific gaps in learning, using information from day to day and periodic assessment practices, to teach specific writing skills in guided sessions.Support for writing: Day 3
Introduction to the Support for writing CPD outline for schools that wish to improve rates of pupil progress in writing.Session 1
Details of Session 1 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources, an introduction to Support for Writing (SfW) and activities.Session 2
Details of Session 2 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources and activities, leading to comparing the teaching strategies used in shared, guided and one to one teaching of writing.Session 3
Details of Session 3 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources, followed by an overview of SfW text types guidance and activities.Session 4
Details of Session 4 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources and activities, leading to collaboratively planning a CPD.Handouts and resources
List of handouts for support for writing CPD.
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