Fix it writing - teacher handbook and student workbook

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Richard Durant
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Key stage
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Intervention

Structured writing intervention support to improve English students’ writing skills

Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. It's ideal for targeted support and intervention sessions at KS3 for struggling writers. It’s also suitable for upper key stage two.

The photocopiable, downloadable teacher handbook provides a structured sequence of 26 writing intervention teaching sessions and lesson resources, with detailed guidance on how to deliver these sessions to develop learners’ core skills. It includes evidence-based, explicit instruction for teachers alongside chapters on: writing and punctuating sentences; planning, organising and linking ideas and paragraphs and choosing effective words.

Research-based and designed for small group or whole-class sessions, this writing intervention pack helps learners to understand the writing process and text structure. If you are teaching writing skills or sentence writing, these resources will students to feel more confident.

The photocopiable student workbook includes all the classroom activities, graphic organisers, checklists and worksheets to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core English writing skills.

You may also be interested in Fix it reading, a new reading intervention programme for KS3 students designed to build learners’ reading comprehension skills.

What's inside?

Introduction (pages 4-25)

  • Progression in writing: a framework
  • Summary of the Fix it writing skill focuses
  • Making sense of students’ writing
  • Setting targets and planning sessions
  • Fix it session structure
  • Getting the most out of Fix it

Chapter 1: Writing and punctuating sentences (pages 26-36)

  • Session 1: Capital letters and full stops
  • Session 2: Ending sentences
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 2: Using conjunctions (pages 37-49)

  • Session 1: Varying conjunctions
  • Session 2: To suit purpose
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 3: Using commas (pages 50-66)

  • Session 1: Lists and clarity
  • Session 2: Clarity and effect
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 4: Varying sentences (pages 67-82)

  • Session 1: Sentence starts and word order
  • Session 2: Varying for effect
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 5: Expanding sentences (pages 83-97)

  • Session 1: Adding detail
  • Session 2: Relative clauses
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 6: Using verbs (pages 98-108)

  • Session 1: Identifying verbs
  • Session 2: The past
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 7: Generating and sorting ideas (pages 109-120)

  • Session 1: Non-fiction
  • Session 2: Fiction
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 8: Sequencing and organising texts (pages 121-132)

  • Session 1: Non-fiction
  • Session 2: Fiction
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 9: Organising paragraphs (pages 133-144)

  • Session 1: Topic sentences
  • Session 2: Writing paragraphs
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 10: Cohesive devices (pages 145-157)

  • Session 1: To suit purpose
  • Session 2: Comparing and contrasting
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 11: Linking paragraphs (pages 158-171)

  • Session 1: Adverbs and determiners
  • Session 2: Making comparisons
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 12: Writing formally (pages 172-180)

  • Session 1: Choosing the right words
  • Session 2: Choosing the right tone
  • Ways to improve

Chapter 13: Choosing effective words (pages 181-190)

  • Session 1: Setting and atmosphere
  • Session 2: Creating atmosphere/characters
  • Ways to improve 

This sample is from the Fix it writing - student workbook:

Ending sentences

Sentences sometimes end with exclamation marks or question marks. Exclamations are used at the end of sentences to show a strong emotion such as surprise, horror or excitement, or which include a command or order. Question marks are used at the end of sentences which ask a question.

There are four sentences below. End each of these with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.

  1. How much did the ice-cream cost

  2. More and more people arrived

  3. Look out

  4. What an enormous queue

Your own sentences

Now write out some of your own sentences about a fairground. Practise writing a range of sentences, so that you include questions and exclamations too. Use exclamation marks, question marks and full stops to end the sentences.

What have you learned?

Write down two important things you have learned in this session.

Say how you will use that learning before the next session.

 

Fix it writing - teacher handbook and student workbook
£35.00

All reviews

Have you used this resource?

5
Fantastic. This pack covers as many bases as possible with writing support. Recommended.

Emily Evans

06/06/2022

5
This resource is excellent. Thank you so much.

JEET PATEL

18/10/2021

5

30/03/2021

5
I am using this resource as remediation for a dyslexic Year 9 student who understands the theory of grammar but whose creative writing is not yet revealing what he knows. Self-esteem is beginning to falter and so I am adapting this resource to build his confidence and with repeated chunks of practice, I am aiming for greater automaticity. The pages in this resource are interesting, varied and joyful making the resource easy to work with.

Amanda Ferguson

20/03/2021

5
Fantastic. This pack covers as many bases as possible with writing support. Recommended.

Emily Evans

06/06/2022

5
This resource is excellent. Thank you so much.

JEET PATEL

18/10/2021

5

30/03/2021

5
I am using this resource as remediation for a dyslexic Year 9 student who understands the theory of grammar but whose creative writing is not yet revealing what he knows. Self-esteem is beginning to falter and so I am adapting this resource to build his confidence and with repeated chunks of practice, I am aiming for greater automaticity. The pages in this resource are interesting, varied and joyful making the resource easy to work with.

Amanda Ferguson

20/03/2021

5

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