1. Improving the quality of writing at KS4 in Modern Foreign Languages

2. Why? Inconsistent results in MFL in writing
Hard to get pupils engaged in writing activities
Pupils struggle to get words down on paper

3. ‘For effective learning, teachers have a duty to expose the mysteries of the school writing and learning processes, to introduce them, explicitly, to these ‘academic’ concepts and to show them how to use and manipulate the variety of linguistic conventions.’
Shirley Franklin (secondary English PCGE lecturer)

4. Adjectives Verbs Opinions Connectives Adverbs Description Originality
Explain the definitions/functions of each grammatical terms and refer to them regularly
Methods
What?
Adjectives
Verbs
Opinions
Connectives
Adverbs
Description
Originality
Starting each module with a text
Pupils to find the AVOCADO in the texts (grammatical analysis)
Pupils to use this structure in each piece of writing they produce

5. Results Pupils write better quality and extended sentences
‘ I am confident to write a text as long as we start a module with a text’
Pupil B
Pupils write better quality and extended sentences
Pupils feel more confident with writing activities
Pupils know how to form tenses accurately, how to use adjectives and connectives
Written tasks
Dec’ April ‘15
Pupil A G C+
Pupil B E C
Pupil C E C
Pupils know how to analyse a text grammatically and apply it to their own learning

6. What next?
It is also supporting the whole school approach to develop literacy across the curriculum