Writing ideas from my school days

Thinking about my own writing experiences in school helped me to consider lots of different writing tasks that could be used in my own teaching.

A book to be used as a diary/journal, children can write about their weekends, days out, school trips and lessons.

Emotions

"Writing for different purposes" book

Retell/create own versions of stories

Comic strips

Adverts (radio, TV, posters)

Projects for school holidays - write about things you do with pictures and photos

Script writing

Post cards

Senses

Letters to your future self/time capsule

Cross-curricular links e.g. history, computing, art etc.

Interview characters

Letters to characters

Recount activities e.g. the best day of my life so far

Draw characters - add annotations - write a description

Create word/phrase bank

Time line for planning a story (plot line)