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The document discusses a method called "Synchronised Sentences" which aims to improve students' writing skills. It identifies 18 different sentence types organized into a hierarchy. The goal is to have students master basic sentence skills step-by-step across all subjects. Teachers of all subjects are asked to reinforce these writing skills whenever possible to help students improve. When fully implemented across a school, this approach could help raise literacy levels and student self-esteem.

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Synchronised Sentences Embedding Functional Writing skills across the curriculum.
What is the link between literacy levels and self esteem? Pupils' low literacy skills often leads to under-achievement across the curriculum.油油All teachers油have a vital role to play in helping our pupils to access and engage with the curriculum at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.油(DFES)
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75% of all Emmaus referrals came from the Bishop Challoner W band.
An extreme example!
Although the same age, these students were never in the same class.
Literacy and self esteem. Putting pen to paper often triggers poor behaviour. Students identify their written work as a series of failures.
Synchronised Sentences It identifies 18 sentence types and arranges them into a four stage hierarchy as follows : The Competent writer. (1-4) The developing writer(5-11) The reflective writer ( 12-16) The Versatile writer ( 17-18)
It identifies and celebrates the evolutionary steps of a maturing writer. Each step is a new skill. Weaker students tend to perceive their written work as a catalogue of small failures. Synchronised sentences is a from the floorboards up approach.
The World Cup Final 2010
Why are the Dutch so much better than the English?
. because their coaches teach children skills from a very early age
Trevor says Let's concentrate on teaching the basic skills that will help them express themselves. Let's allow them to have fun, take away the importance of winning and stop the young players being afraid of making mistakes.
Free flowing Controlled Flair Skill Poised Artistic They could almost be describing gifted writers..
When England hit their glass ceiling, commentators will say that they are . Technically flawed Too afraid of failure Lacking the confidence to express themselves All heart and passion and not enough skill.
Just like the English F.A. were churning out writers who have the same limitations. Technically flawed Too afraid of failure Lacking the confidence to express themselves All heart and passion and not enough skill.
Like footballers, great writers are not artists but master craftsmen and women.
A possible starting point. 17/18 17/18 17/18 11 Top 17 17 17 11 Mid 16 16 16 11 EF 17 16 14-15 10 Top 16 15 14 10 Mid 14 13 12 10 Ef 15 & 16 14 13 9 Top 13 12 10 & 11 9 Mid 11 10 8 &9 9 EF 12 11 10 8 Top 9 8 7 8 Mid 7 6 5 8 EF 9 8 Revise 1-7 7 Top 6 5 Revise 3 & 4 7 Mid 4 Revise 3 Revise 1-2 7 EF Summer Spring Autumn
What will I be doing? Not much hopefully. It's the English teacher' s job to embed these skills. Your role is one of reinforcement . Whenever there's an synchronised sentence moment in your lessons it will seem incidental and insignificant. Its potential power stems from the way in which these moments will be synchronised across the timetable.
When will I be doing it ? Whenever you set a writing task in class or for homework you simply need to remind students that their work needs to contain one underlined example of the sentence they're currently working on. It should have the appropriate number next to it in the margin . When you mark the books, simply tick the sentence to show that you recognise the effort.
What might students ask you? Am I doing it right?
18. Its not about genius; its about craftsmanship. If youre traumatised by the thought of synchronised sentences -baffled by its apparent complextity- take heart from the experiences of Charles Dickens; despite a lack of formal education, and by devouring a discarded grammar primer,the young man overcame his early years as a child labourer to ,slowly, step by step, master the basic skills that would make him the greatest writer English prose writer in history.
18. Its not about punctuation; its about expression. If youre traumatised by the thought of synchronised sentences -baffled by its apparent complextity- take heart from the experiences of Charles Dickens; despite a lack of formal education, and by devouring a discarded grammar primer,the young man overcame his early years as a child labourer to ,slowly, step by step, master the basic skills that would make him the greatest writer English prose writer in history.
Advantages of Synchronised Sentences. There is , in effect a single currency of exchange in which writing skills can be discussed and understood by staff, pupils and parents. Students know that their developments will be identified and celebrated. It can become an aspect of differentiation and a means of extending the abler students in every teaching group. It is not onerous. If it is, its not being done properly.
More Advantages Staff who are unsure can consult an English specialist attached to the group. It mobilises the entire staff against the single biggest error in British exercise books: the failure to use full stops to close down sentences.(Sentence 1) We should inherit A level students who have the skill to conceptualise and articulate subtle, abstract ideas.
The Analogy English teachers are the coaches. The kids are the players. Who are you?
A well informed spectator actively cheering their attempts to use their skills.

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  • 1. Synchronised Sentences Embedding Functional Writing skills across the curriculum.
  • 2. What is the link between literacy levels and self esteem? Pupils' low literacy skills often leads to under-achievement across the curriculum.油油All teachers油have a vital role to play in helping our pupils to access and engage with the curriculum at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.油(DFES)
  • 3. 油
  • 4. 75% of all Emmaus referrals came from the Bishop Challoner W band.
  • 6. Although the same age, these students were never in the same class.
  • 7. Literacy and self esteem. Putting pen to paper often triggers poor behaviour. Students identify their written work as a series of failures.
  • 8. Synchronised Sentences It identifies 18 sentence types and arranges them into a four stage hierarchy as follows : The Competent writer. (1-4) The developing writer(5-11) The reflective writer ( 12-16) The Versatile writer ( 17-18)
  • 9. It identifies and celebrates the evolutionary steps of a maturing writer. Each step is a new skill. Weaker students tend to perceive their written work as a catalogue of small failures. Synchronised sentences is a from the floorboards up approach.
  • 10. The World Cup Final 2010
  • 11. Why are the Dutch so much better than the English?
  • 12. . because their coaches teach children skills from a very early age
  • 13. Trevor says Let's concentrate on teaching the basic skills that will help them express themselves. Let's allow them to have fun, take away the importance of winning and stop the young players being afraid of making mistakes.
  • 14. Free flowing Controlled Flair Skill Poised Artistic They could almost be describing gifted writers..
  • 15. When England hit their glass ceiling, commentators will say that they are . Technically flawed Too afraid of failure Lacking the confidence to express themselves All heart and passion and not enough skill.
  • 16. Just like the English F.A. were churning out writers who have the same limitations. Technically flawed Too afraid of failure Lacking the confidence to express themselves All heart and passion and not enough skill.
  • 17. Like footballers, great writers are not artists but master craftsmen and women.
  • 18. A possible starting point. 17/18 17/18 17/18 11 Top 17 17 17 11 Mid 16 16 16 11 EF 17 16 14-15 10 Top 16 15 14 10 Mid 14 13 12 10 Ef 15 & 16 14 13 9 Top 13 12 10 & 11 9 Mid 11 10 8 &9 9 EF 12 11 10 8 Top 9 8 7 8 Mid 7 6 5 8 EF 9 8 Revise 1-7 7 Top 6 5 Revise 3 & 4 7 Mid 4 Revise 3 Revise 1-2 7 EF Summer Spring Autumn
  • 19. What will I be doing? Not much hopefully. It's the English teacher' s job to embed these skills. Your role is one of reinforcement . Whenever there's an synchronised sentence moment in your lessons it will seem incidental and insignificant. Its potential power stems from the way in which these moments will be synchronised across the timetable.
  • 20. When will I be doing it ? Whenever you set a writing task in class or for homework you simply need to remind students that their work needs to contain one underlined example of the sentence they're currently working on. It should have the appropriate number next to it in the margin . When you mark the books, simply tick the sentence to show that you recognise the effort.
  • 21. What might students ask you? Am I doing it right?
  • 22. 18. Its not about genius; its about craftsmanship. If youre traumatised by the thought of synchronised sentences -baffled by its apparent complextity- take heart from the experiences of Charles Dickens; despite a lack of formal education, and by devouring a discarded grammar primer,the young man overcame his early years as a child labourer to ,slowly, step by step, master the basic skills that would make him the greatest writer English prose writer in history.
  • 23. 18. Its not about punctuation; its about expression. If youre traumatised by the thought of synchronised sentences -baffled by its apparent complextity- take heart from the experiences of Charles Dickens; despite a lack of formal education, and by devouring a discarded grammar primer,the young man overcame his early years as a child labourer to ,slowly, step by step, master the basic skills that would make him the greatest writer English prose writer in history.
  • 24. Advantages of Synchronised Sentences. There is , in effect a single currency of exchange in which writing skills can be discussed and understood by staff, pupils and parents. Students know that their developments will be identified and celebrated. It can become an aspect of differentiation and a means of extending the abler students in every teaching group. It is not onerous. If it is, its not being done properly.
  • 25. More Advantages Staff who are unsure can consult an English specialist attached to the group. It mobilises the entire staff against the single biggest error in British exercise books: the failure to use full stops to close down sentences.(Sentence 1) We should inherit A level students who have the skill to conceptualise and articulate subtle, abstract ideas.
  • 26. The Analogy English teachers are the coaches. The kids are the players. Who are you?
  • 27. A well informed spectator actively cheering their attempts to use their skills.