Righting Writing #1: An Introduction
This post kicks off a series of articles on developing writing skills in MFL. Traditionally, (going back to the days of ‘O’ Levels in the UK system), writing had a very prominent place in language...
View ArticleRighting Writing #2: What does it mean to make progress in writing?
I’ve always had a problem with the National Curriculum levels for MFL in all of their incarnations. Unsurprisingly, I’m not alone. There are a number of things that trouble me about them. The number...
View ArticleRighting Writing #3: Father Christmas in Prison!
This is fun to do with a Year 9 class – it’s a writing activity you can do in the first week back after Christmas. Click the links to download the materials: Papá Noel en la cárcel (A5 student...
View ArticleRighting Writing #4: Starting at the End
In this post, I’m going to set out the detail of a writing assessment activity for KS3 and then in the next post, I’ll make a start on describing the speaking, listening, reading and writing...
View ArticleRighting Writing #5: The Post-Its Game
For any extended free writing activity to be a successful experience, there are two basic requirements: that the pupils know the necessary vocabulary and that the grammatical demands of the activity...
View ArticleRighting Writing #5.1: 5 Techniques for Vocab Cards
How do you get pupils to learn spellings, especially the key words they need in a topic or the words they usually get wrong? If they have a ‘learning homework’, how do they go about it? Is there any...
View ArticleRighting Writing #5.2: Another 5 Techniques for Vocab Cards
Now, where were we? (Click here for last week’s post) Anagrams The vocabulary is written on one side of the card and on the other, the same word, but all the letters are jumbled up. Jumbled sentences...
View ArticleRighting Writing #1: An Introduction
This post kicks off a series of articles on developing writing skills in MFL. Here’s the plan: I’d like to take a step back from examination requirements and formats and everything external that we...
View ArticleRighting Writing #2: What does it mean to make progress in writing?
I’ve always had a problem with the National Curriculum levels for MFL in all of their incarnations. Unsurprisingly, I’m not alone. There are a number of things that trouble me about them. The number...
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