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Formal Writing for Strugglers - Back to Basics with STRUCTURE
Tackle the basic structure of formal writing - essays, argumentative, expository writing with this heavily scaffolded resource for strugglers. When students are confident with structure, then they can concentrate on:
- Improving their writing with connectives, persuasive features, more fluent sentences and so on.
- Developing their ideas to include a bit of critical thinking.
To complement this resource, you might also find our whiteboard cues helpful.
This resource includes:
⭐ Teacher notes and topic ideas.
⭐ The Basic Burger student workbook.
⭐ The Gourmet Burger student workbook (Students add explanations and a bit more to their conclusion)
⭐ Examples to help your students as they work.
ALL FULLY EDITABLE
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ A fully editable resource.
❤️ Heavily scaffolded, clearly marked steps.
❤️ Steps and strategies that are extremely simple...without it being a babyish resource! (This is aimed at 11 to 14-year-old students!)
❤️ Repetitive and formulaic strategies (not something we promote in our writing, but it's necessary for the purpose of getting that structure clearly understood).
❤️ Plenty of visual cues with images and layout.
❤️ The final step is where students literally cut out each part of their writing and glue them all together to make one piece.
❤️ Carefully disguised, subliminal introductions to connectives and vocabulary related to formal writing.
❤️ A bit of humour!
Format:
Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
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Also helpful are these related products:
▶️ Writing Beautiful Sentences
▶️ Whiteboard Cues for Basic Structure (Lego-inspired bricks and more)
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