1. Talk for writing
The Planning Cycle

2. Clear front cover at the beginning of each genre

3. Teacher sets 3 genre specific targets for each pupil
Cold
Task on pink paper
Learning journey for the journalistic writing unit

4. Photo of hook – drama, role play, trip, visitor, experience, cross – curricular activity etc.

5. Copy of the model text with a vocabulary list of any key new vocabulary that needs to be explored/ explained – in upper KS2, the pupils could generate this themselves as long as they copy spellings accurately on to the grid.

6. Story
Map of the whole text

7. Reading as a reader - comprehension

8. Reading as a writer – language/style features

9. Word and sentence level teaching from the genre focusing on personal targets – pupils underline where they are demonstrating the skill.

10. Boxing up the text – with a column for planning for each of the stages.

11. After shared writing – writing the text in sections (each part of the boxing up into paragraphs with a specific LO focusing on targets)

12. Further writing in sections
Quality marking after every section of shared writing to support improvement

13. Drafting of final piece
Quality marking after every section of shared writing to support improvement

14. Editing of final piece to improve impact on the reader – guided by teacher marking

15. Hot assessment
Final piece published on green paper – in books and displayed

16. Peer and self evaluation of published piece – and review against targets set at the beginning

17. Title page
Cold assessment

18. Child’s targets and teacher’s targets for the unit

19. Storymap
Letter as a ‘hook’

20. Reading as a reader – what is the impact on the reader?

21. Reading as a writer – how has the text been structured?

22. Short burst writing
Punctuation focus
Picture stimulus and sentence structure work

23. EYFS

24. Follow with a fantastic ‘Hook!’
Cold assessment
Follow with a fantastic ‘Hook!’

25. Writing sounds in a word
Use of box shapes to support writing.
If possible use key vocabulary from the model text

26. Copy of the model text

27. Story Map

28. Key spellings from model text

29. Drawing pictures to tell own story orally – teacher a scribe
Sentences about ‘How to Catch a Star’

30. Starting to write re-telling of story

31. Changing the story map
for child’s innovation

32. Writing the innovation

33. Hot assessment