The document discusses using reading tasks to prepare learners for writing. It suggests that as learners read and discuss different text types, their understanding of writing style is extended. Learners can then draw on this knowledge for their own writing. The document provides examples of text types learners need to write and suggests using these as a basis to highlight key features of content and presentation to the learners.

1. Using reading tasks to prepare for writing
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‘As (learners) read and discuss an
increasing range of text types, their implicit
understanding of style will be extended and
made more explicit. They can then draw on
this knowledge for their own writing.’
(p 121 Adult Literacy Core Curriculum)

2. The link between reading and writing
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‘learners need to be encouraged
to read as writers’

3. Exploring language features of texts
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 gather good examples of the type of texts your
learners need to write often at school, college or
work placement –
- assignments - reflective accounts
- instructions - incident reports
- care plans - messages in day books
 use them as a basis to show learners key features
of the text in terms of content and presentation

4.  use a variety of activities to highlight examples of
how the texts are written to reflect their purpose and
audience -
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Text level
- how information is chosen, how graphics are used,
how headings are used, how ideas are linked
Sentence level
- typical sentence structures & linking words, how
punctuation is used to help the reader, use of bullets
Word level
- how words are used effectively, key spelling words,
formal and informal vocabulary

5. Shared reading
to explore language
features
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Shared writing
Guided writing
- writing frames
Independent
writing

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Literacy Across the Curriculum

7. What is
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grammar?
‘Grammar is the study of how we make sentences’
David Crystal
Making Sense of Grammar

8. Developing grammar – two approaches
Deductive Inductive
- teacher explains ‘rules’ of - teacher helps learners
grammar for learners to discover patterns for
practise in exercises themselves in real life
(didactic) texts
(investigative)

9. Grammar – what should we focus on?
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Text • use of connectives to link ideas
• subject-verb agreement
• consistent use of tense
Sentence • simple, compound, complex structures
• endings to show plurals e.g. lorry > lorries
Word • word building e.g. sad + ness, work + er

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Incident report

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X Mind
software
– free mindmapping

12. Language and context

13. Mankind is No Island

14. Road Safety Commercial

15. Polar Bear Rescue
http://www.youtube.com/v/Wj-L_7jLVbg

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Drop down form field options

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Word Magnets

18. Re-write activities
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I work in a charity shop two days
a week. I help to sort out clothes
at the back but also serve customers. I deal with their
queries and handle money. I label goods for display and
I tidy the book shelves. Often I cash up and check
the float at the end of the day.
1. Re-write the text beginning ‘Sally work
2. Re-write the text beginning ‘Last year Sally worked...’

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makes it an idea destination for a short break in
your touring caravan or your tent. Relax and gently
unwind as you take in the panoramic views across
the unspoiled heathland towards the undulating
coastline of North Norfolk. The Park has a number of walks and
cycle paths that guide you through a glorious range of habitats.
Our Nature Trail leaflets will quickly help you to discover the
fascinating variety of wildlife on the park and explain the careful
conservation strategies that we carry out to protect
and develop the environment. Discover
how your holiday can be both relaxing and
educational too for all the family. Whether
by foot, cycle or car you can always use the
Park as a base to explore the beautiful North
Norfolk coastline and countryside.

20. The unique setting of Kelling Heath Holiday Park
makes it an idea destination for a short break in
your touring caravan or your tent. Relax and gently
unwind as you take in the panoramic views across
the unspoiled heathland towards the undulating
coastline of North Norfolk. The Park has a number is awalks and
‘Protect’ of verb – the
others are all adjectives
cycle paths that guide you through a glorious range of habitats.
Our Nature Trail leaflets will quickly help you to discover the
fascinating variety of wildlife on the park and explain the careful
conservation strategies that we carry out to protect
and develop the environment. Discover
how your holiday can be both relaxing and
educational too for all the family. Whether
by foot, cycle or car you can always use the
Park as a base to explore the beautiful North
Norfolk coastline and countryside.

21. ‘As’ is a conjunction –
the others are all nouns.
The unique setting of Kelling Heath Holiday Park
makes it an idea destination for a short break in
your touring caravan or your tent. Relax and gently
unwind as you take in the panoramic views across
the unspoiled heathland towards the undulating
coastline of North Norfolk. The Park has a number of walks and
cycle paths that guide you through a glorious range of habitats.
Our Nature Trail leaflets will quickly help you to discover the
fascinating variety of wildlife on the park and explain the careful
conservation strategies that we carry out to protect
and develop the environment. Discover
how your holiday can be both relaxing and
educational too for all the family. Whether
by foot, cycle or car you can always use the
Park as a base to explore the beautiful North
Norfolk coastline and countryside.

22. Job search – plumber
5 tools they
blow torch, saw,
use file, wrench
spanner,
mend pipes, find
5leaks, connect
jobs they
washing machines,
mightwashers,
change
do
reliable, tidy, clean up
5 cheap, punctual,
qualities
you look for
polite

23. Quick make
A busy postman walks quickly. noun
A busy fireman walks quickly. verb
A busy fireman drives quickly. adverb
A busy fireman drives safely. determiner
The busy fireman drove safely. adjective
The careful fireman drove safely.

24. Countdown
pronoun noun verb adverb determiner
conjunction adjective preposition
shy the
doctor
quietly in danced
he because

25. Countdown
pronoun noun verb adverb determiner
conjunction adjective preposition
the doctor danced
quietly in the dark
because he was shy

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The hype
about text
messaging

27. Young people who text are –
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‘.. vandals who are doing to
our language what Genghis Khan
did to his neighbours eight
hundred years ago. They are destroying it:
pillaging our punctuation; savaging our
sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they
must be stopped.’
John Humphreys, Daily Mail, Sept 2007

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‘All the popular beliefs about
texting are wrong , or at least
debatable . …there is increasing
evidence that it helps rather
than hinders literacy.’
David Crystal - txtng the gr8 db8
OUP 2008

29. dad@hvn
usrsphl
we want wot us want
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&urth2b like hvn
giv us food
& 4giv r sins
lyk we 4giv uvaz
don’t test us!
save us!
bcos we know ur boss
ur tuf
& ur cool 4 eva!
ok?

30. u shall luv ur mobil fon with all ur hart
u & ur phone shall neva b apart
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u shall nt lust aftr ur neibrs fone nor thiev
u shall b prepard @ all times 2 txt and 2 recv
u shall use LOL & othr acronyms in
conversatns
u shall be zappy with ur asr*r*sks & ex!matns!
u shall abbrevi8 & rite words like theyr sed
u shall nt speak 2 sum 1 face2face if u cn msg
em instead
u shall nt shout with capitals XEPT IN DIRE
EMERGNCY
u shall nt consult a nglish dictnry

31. Sniglets
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• kellogulation
• circumtreeviation
• polygrouch
• footbrawl
• toastophobia
• lactomangulation
• aquadextrous
• brakenoia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet
• http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/sniglets.htm

32. I’m sorry I haven’t got a clue
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• pasteurize = invisible
• protein = an enthusiastic youth worker
• relief = what trees do in the autumn
• avoidable = what toreadors try to do
• legend = where your toes are
• innuendoes = Italian suppositories
• decadent = someone with 10 teeth

33. Dingbats
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http://www.kensquiz.co.uk/table-top-
quizzes/word-puzzles/dingbats

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35. Start

36. Question 1 Which sentence is correct?
(a) We were late.
(b) We was late.
(c) We is late.
a
Correct! b
Try again! c
Try again!
Next question

37. Question 2 Which sentence is correct?
(a) He go to Norwich every day.
(b) He is going to Norwich every day.
(c) He goes to Norwich every day.
Try again! Correct!
a
Try again! b c
Next question

38. Question 3 What kind of sentence is this?
The man walked down the road and turned the corner.
simple
Try again! complex
Try again!
compound
Correct!
Next question

39. Question 4 Which language feature is typical of a set
of instructions?
(a) Imperative verbs (b) Informal language
(c) Consistent use of the past tense
a
Correct! b
Try again! c
Try again!
Next question

40. Question 5 Read the paragraph of text on the next slide.
Which of the following sums up the tone?
(a) formal (b) persuasive (c) logical
Correct Try again!
a
Try again! b c
Click to read

41. The unique setting of Kelling Heath Holiday Park
makes it an idea destination for a short break in
your touring caravan or your tent. Relax and gently
unwind as you take in the panoramic views across
the unspoiled heathland towards the undulating
coastline of North Norfolk. The Park has a number of walks and
cycle paths that guide you through a glorious range of habitats.
Our Nature Trail leaflets will quickly help you to discover the
fascinating variety of wildlife on the park and explain the careful
conservation strategies that we carry out to protect and develop
the environment. Discover how your holiday can be both
relaxing and educational too for all the family. Whether by foot,
cycle or car you can always use the Park
as a base to explore the beautiful North
Norfolk coastline and countryside.

42. Braingames

43. Teaching strategies
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• modelling active reading
• use of graphic organisers
• text marking
• decision making/classifying activities
• proofreading
• sequencing
• table reconstruction
• ranking
• ‘jigsaw’ and snowball activities
• mind mapping software

44. Active learning approaches
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‘We learn by doing. Research shows that
active learning is much better recalled,
enjoyed and understood. Active methods
require us to ‘make our own meaning’, that
is, develop our own conceptualisations of
what we are learning.’
(Teaching Today: a Practical Guide Geoff Petty
2004)

45. Learning retention
Listening 5%
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Reading 10%
Audio-visual 20%
Demonstration 30%
Discussion group 50%
Practice by doing 75%
Teaching others, 90%
immediate use of learning

46. Uses whole
Not a passive ‘mug and texts to explore
jug’ approach to literacy language in use
teaching
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Uses reading tasks
Encourages Active Learning in to prepare for
‘deep’ alongside writing activities
‘surface’ Functional English
learning teaching
Challenges learners
to recognise language
Enables learners to tackle
features, patterns, rules
problems that are harder
for themselves
& more realistic than those
they could do alone

47. Active Learning – 10 pedagogies
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