Use leaflets and websites of castles and tourist sites to provide examples of many different text types. Study features of formal language and transform ‘officialese’ into accessible English. Children then create a virtual guided tour using appropriate language styles. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Lesson guiding KS3/KS4 students through formal writing features.

A comprehensive GCSE exam preparation package, focusing on formal and informal letter writing. The package contains exemplar letters, examination criteria, examiners' comments, placemats, etc., to help students to revise and develop their skills and knowledge. Opportunities are given for analysis and discussion, for short burst writing tasks and for full practice tasks. A VLE unit is included in the pack, to further embed your students' understanding. Full lesson plans included. All images are free for commercial use.

Persuasive writing KS4. Originally used for IGCSE though skills are transferable to other exam boards. Covers 'Take Me Out'- Ethics Persuasive devices Animal Rights Euthanasia Facebook For or against school bell Travel writing Could also be used with KS3

Article Writing. A lovely lesson based on the topic of female pop stars

Task on writing to argue, persuade and advise for GCSE

This unit encourages a more academic style writing style from students, particularly in the areas of structuring an essay, responding analytically to texts, developing a thesis, and maintaining an appropriately formal and well organised writing style. Devised to prepare students for the Shakespeare / Literary Heritage controlled assessment, these 6-8 lessons could serve as a booster for students’ essay writing skills and can be adapted to suit texts you are teaching.</p>

4 Lessons worth of Instruction Writing Plans for a Higher Ability set, including a range of activities to carry out including making an imperative alphabet with the children as a starter- they really enjoyed this activity!

Word document of report writing statements for Early Years linked to FSP, English, Maths, ICT, Science, History, RE, Geography, Art, Music, PE, DT and PSHCE linked with SEAL.

Success criteria for all genres in English writing, non- fiction and fiction

A resource that provides a toolkit for writing a variety of text types including discuss, recount, explain, report and persuade.The worksheet has a number of language devises and techniques that may be used in texts designed for particular purposes.

A bundle of activities perfect for teaching passive voice in Year 6. ‘Passive voice’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation. Including a range of activities allowing children to identify active and passive voiced sentences, re-writing sentences in the passive voice and understanding what makes a sentence passive. ‘Passive voice’ cards. Subject, verb and object cards which can be used in small group or paired work to create sentences in the active or passive voice and encourage discussion. ‘Impersonal passive’ word mat. Impersonal passive is a great way to get passive voice into formal writing, this word mat is perfect to support children using this. National Curriculum Links Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – Use of the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence. Differentiation Identifying passive and active voice sentences, re-writing the verbs in a sentence to make it passive. Identifying passive and active voice sentences and re-writing sentences in the passive voice in single and multi-clause sentences. Identifying passive and active voice sentences and re-writing sentences in the passive and active voice in single and multi- clause sentences. Writing their own sentences.

A writing revision booklet that breaks down the different writing styles at key stage 3. It models writing with the purposes of Argue, Persuade, Advise, Inform, Explain, Describe, Imagine, Explore, Entertain, Model, Analyse, Review and Comment. Useful for the NC tests (SATS) that students do in year 9. It also has several tasks and some information on sentence structure.

For upper KS2 - powerpoint Big Writing starter linked to 'Coasts&' topic. Non chronological report.

A selection of revision booklets and class activities to help students revise for the English IGCSE exam. These tasks were planned for students sitting the CORE exam, but can be adapted for students sitting the EXTENDED paper. Please leave feedback to help me develop this further.

An Excel grid that uses the Ros Wilson Big Writing Assessment standards (updated for 2016 expectations) to assess pupil performance against the new Age Related Expectation criteria. Instructions for use are on the notes page and I hope they are completely self explanatory. If not I have failed, not for the first time! Hope they save people a bit of time. Just to answer a couple of questions. I have not done a similar spreadsheet for Big Read. The E, D and S grades do mean Emerging, Developing and Secure. I believe the rough %age for E is up to 33% and D up to 66%. There are some (grey) criteria that are non-negotiable standards and these do not count towards the %age grading.

This is the document I found online with new curriculum writing assessments - Exceeding or mastery etc for each year group.

Various documents to help support staff in boosting their children's reading and writing results...

New curriculum Level (BIG Write) in Word. Ros Willsons Grades for writing assessments in Word (converted from PDF)

Success criteria for Summary, Formal Letter, and Persuasive Arguments. For display on learning wall and to be made available to children for use during writing task as well as during self and peer assessment.