Planning a Writing Task

Planning a Writing Task

Over the weekend, I saw this blog post from James Durran. It talks about a change in focus from planning success criteria for writing so go read that and then come back here to see what I have done. It’s ok, I’ll wait. Done? Good....
Tickled Pink (or Fuchsia, Salmon, Magenta…)

Tickled Pink (or Fuchsia, Salmon, Magenta…)

As any teacher will tell you, improving children’s vocabulary is important for many reasons – none of which I will go into here, I just wanted to share a little thing we’ve been trying in Year 3 this term. As part of our English, we have described...