Support for English, maths and ESOL Level 3 Award in English for literacy and language teaching Writing master class

Session aims To review and extend participants’ personal literacy relating to writing To design written texts (plan, draft, write and proof-read)

Outcomes By the end of the session participants will have considered how to: Plan appropriately according to audience, purpose and situation Draft, using techniques at text, sentence and word level Write fluently, coherently and cohesively Write accurately and legibly using conventions of lexis and syntax, to include grammar, spelling and punctuation appropriate to purpose Edit and proof-read at text, sentence and word level

Structure and social purpose of texts Clear awareness of: the purpose of the text its social context the intended audience will make it easier to decide on an appropriate structure and lexis and so produce an effective text.

Elements that influence the language and structure of texts Audience Mode Topic Purpose

Organisation of texts To organise any text into a coherent whole, writers and speakers need to keep their readers and listeners well informed about where they are and where they are going… Grammatical resources … signpost the way… from the beginning to end of a text. Using Functional Grammar, Butt D, Fahey R, Feez S, Spinks S, Yallop C (2000), Maquarie University

Back-referencing “Reader, I married him.” Who is ‘I’? Who is ‘him’? How can you decide?