Videos – Top Tips for Writing

Let Adam Dobson show you how to add capital letters, full stops and finger spaces to a sentence. A sentence always starts with a capital and ends with a full stop. Finger spaces are used to separate words and make the sentence easier to read.

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Let Amir Iqbal show you an alternative way of using adverbs; experimenting with using the same adverb twice in a sentence. An adverb explains how something is happening in a sentence. Add a double adverb and explain "why it is happening in that way". Its worth noting that in this video "carefully" is spelt incorrectly. Within the context of this video, we chose not to correct it "there and then" as the task in-hand was so difficult and so we made an allowance for this. When children write, they have to juggle many different concepts and so as teachers, its important to get this balance right - knowing when to intervene and when to step back.

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Let Amy Skedd show you how we teach children to use powerful verbs in their writing. We encourage children to use alternative words for 'went' and 'said' in their writing as they provide more description and ensure higher level sentence composition.

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Let Barry McHugh show how to improve a simple sentence to make it a Super Sentence. A Super Sentence will include sentence components like adjectives, adverbs and connectives. Using all of these components in a sentence will make the sentence more interesting for your reader.

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Let Danny Hafeez show you how to improve a sentence by adding an adverb. A adverb gives more information about the doing word (verb) to tell you how it is happening. Adverbs words that end in -ly.

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Let Louise Hunter show you some alternative ways of using punctuation; experimenting with different types. Different punctuation marks are used for a purpose in writing, helping it to make sense or adding emphasis.

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Let Melissa Sterzl show you some alternative ways of using connectives to add extra information to a simple sentence. A connective is used to join two simple sentences together. They can be used to explain why something is happening.

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Let Natalie Harle show you how children can use their knowledge of phonics to support their spelling. Here, she shows you how children use phonics to segment words into their individual sounds. It is important to encourage children to use the sounds that they know to write plausible spellings, but to correct these as they become more competent.

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Let Headteacher Paul Jordan show you some ways to help develop your children's Handwriting.

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Here Rebecca Olley talks to you about tricky words. Generally, tricky words can't be sounded out using phonics, although it depends what sounds you know. Children learn these words seeing them, hearing them and then practising writing them regularly until they know them well.

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Here Rofiya Begum talks to you about name writing. She will show you a range of ways in which children are supported in recognising individual letters in their name and to formulate each letter when writing their name.

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Let Rosa Corcoran-Jones show you some alternative ways of using adjectives; experimenting with them in different formats. A smile compares the noun to something else, while a hyphen can be used after the noun. Alliteration means that some words in the sentence begin with the same sound and this is really powerful.

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Let Suzy Waters show you how children can use their adjectives within an embedded clause. In this case, the adjective comes after the noun. This is then punctuated with commas around the clause.

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