Let's Write: Activities to develop writing skills for 7–11 year olds

Throughout the book, the emphasis is on providing activities that will engage the pupils in a discussion of how texts are structured, before producing their own writing. John Foster suggests a range of imaginative tasks that both literacy specialists and non-specialists will find useful in developing children’ ability to write coherently and correctly.

Let’s Write includes:

• a clear explanation of the writing process with activities designed to improve pupils’ drafting skills
• examples of the different types of writing for pupils to analyse, which they can use as models for their own writing
• a range of imaginative ideas for writing tasks, together with suggestions of curriculum opportunities for practising particular forms
• writing challenges which can be used to stretch more able writers and thus to introduce differentiation by task, as well as by outcome
• writing tips, for example, on sentence structure and paragraph structure, appropriate to the different types of writing
• activities involving pupils in the assessment of their writing
• a section on writing correctly, focussing on grammar, spelling and punctuation
• a section containing games and activities designed to extend pupils’ vocabulary.

Let’s Write provides teachers with a lively collection of resources that will be welcomed by teachers and that will help to develop children’s writing.