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Summary and Storify from #UKEdChat Literacy Subject Special

Includes ten tips to help encourage children's imaginations

"As you may have read, this half term we focused on the teaching of memoir. In our first week we discussed the genre using our genre-booklets and this created a buzz for the rest of the project. Focusing on the genre and why people write memoir allowed the generating of ideas to happen fairly quickly."

Supporting pupils to write

"Editable example of instructional writing - Making a Learning Enhancing Potion"

An intriguing site which has split the whole world into 3 metre by 3 metre squares and assigned 3 words to label that coordinate, giving addresses to millions around the world who don't have an official address, or making a meeting point more accuracy than a postcode. For educators, there are lots of geographic and literacy possibilities - geocaching with spelling, or writing short stories or descriptions about a real location including the words. The site can be viewed in many different European languages meaning there are MFL possibilities too."

"An adaptable introduction to how to write non-chronological reports in the style of a non-chronological report. Includes a check list of features and an example order for reports."

Interesting

A great app to support teaching and learning spellings. Updated.