Writing

At Well Lane we follow the ‘Ready, Steady, Write’ scheme of work from Years 1 to Y6.

The writing curriculum we offer, follows the national curriculum in KS1 and KS2 and the EYFS Statutory Framework and Development Matters in the early years. Our writing curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged and those with special educational needs, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. Where required, pedagogy is adapted so that all pupils including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND are on the same knowledge journey towards the same endpoints.

‘Ready, Steady, Write’ is evidence-based teaching of writing through comprehensive units that have been carefully constructed so the entire statutory curriculum for English is covered from Yr 1 to Y6. Each unit has a specific writing outcome for the narrative and non-narrative form to ensure pupils are given opportunities to write for many different purposes, these are explained for each term below.

Components are carefully sequenced so new knowledge builds on what has been previously taught and leads to the end points. All writing lessons following a planning approach of, 'Immerse, Analyse, Plan and Write.'

The detailed units of work centre on engaging, vocabulary-rich texts, with a wealth of writing opportunities within and across the curriculum. They provide:

Clear sequential lesson plans

Vocabulary learning and contextualised spelling, grammar and punctuation

Wider reading for the wider curriculum

Curriculum Enrichments

Model Texts linked to writing outcomes

Year One

Vehicle Text

Major Glad, Major

Dizzy

Rapunzel

Hermelin

Where the wild things are

The Secret of Black Rock

The Last Wolf

Narrative outcome

Discovery story

Purpose: To narrate

Instructions: How to catch a witch

Purpose: to instruct

Detective story

Portal story

Return story

Hunting story

Non-narrative

outcome

Recount: Messages Purpose: To recount

Recount: Messages

Purpose: to give

information

Recount: Letters

Purpose: to recount

Information: Wild things

Purpose: to

instruct

Recount: Postcards Purpose: to

recount

Instructions:

Recipes

Purpose: to inform

Year Two
Vehicle Text	A River	The Night Gardener	Bog Baby	Grandad’s Island	The King Who Banned the Dark	Rosie Revere
Narrative outcome	Narrative: Circular Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Setting Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Finding Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Return Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Mistake Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Invention Narrative Purpose: To narrate
Non-narrative outcome	Recount: Letter Purpose: To inform	Recount: Diary Purpose: To recount	Instructions: How to build a habitat Purpose: To instruct	Information: Jungle Animals Purpose: To inform	Information: How to be a Regal Leader Purpose: To inform	Explanation: How a machine works Purpose: To explain

Year Three
Vehicle Text	Fox	Seen not heard	The Iron Man	Jemmy Button	Egyptology	Into the Forest
Narrative outcome	Narrative: Fable Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Character Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Approach Threat Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Return Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Egyptian Mystery Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Lost Narrative Purpose: To narrate
Non-narrative outcome	Information: Foxes Purpose: To inform	Instructions: How to be a mischievous child Purpose: To instruct	Explanation: How to capture the Iron Man Purpose: To explain	the Iron Man Purpose: To explain Information: Letters Purpose: To recount	Instructions: Secret Diary Purpose: To recount	Narrative: Lost Narrative Purpose: To narrate

Year Four
Vehicle Text	The Journey	Manfish	Arthur and the Golden Rope	The Lost Happy Endings	The Whale	Leaf
Narrative outcome	Narrative: Refugee Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Invention Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Myth Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Twisted Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Setting Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Outsider Narrative Purpose: To narrate
Non-narrative outcome	Recount: Diary Purpose: To recount	Recount: Jacques Cousteau Biography Purpose: To recount	Information: Defeating a Viking monster Purpose: To inform	Persuasion: Letter Purpose: To persuade	Recount: Newspaper Report Purpose: To recount	Information: Polar Bears Purpose: To inform

Year Five
Vehicle Text	Where Once We Stood	The Hound of the Baskervilles Thanks	The Promise	FArTHER	The Lost Book of Adventure	King Kong
Narrative outcome	Narrative: Exploration Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Cliffhanger Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Recount: Diary Purpose: To recount	Narrative: Setting Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Survival Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Dilemma Narrative Purpose: To narrate
Non-narrative outcome	Recount: Formal Report Purpose: To recount	Recount: Formal Event Report Purpose: To inform	Recount: Henry Brown Biography Purpose: To recount	Recount: Letter Purpose: To recount	Explanation: Survival Guide Purpose: To explain	Discussion: Balanced Argument Purpose: To discuss

Year Six
Vehicle Text	Rose Blanche	A Story Like the Wind	The Origin of the Species	Wolves	Shackleton’s Journey	Hansel and Gretel
Narrative outcome	Recount: Diary Purpose: To recount	Narrative: Flashback Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Discovery Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Recount: First Person Narrative Purpose: To narrate Discussion: Balanced Argument Purpose: To discuss	Narrative: Endurance Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Narrative: Dual Narrative Purpose: To narrate
Non-narrative outcome	Recount: Bravery Speech Award Purpose: To recount & inform (hybrid)	Recount: Newspaper Report Purpose: To recount	Explanation: Adaptation Purpose: To explain	Information Text: Wolves Purpose: To inform Narrative: Suspense Narrative Purpose: To narrate	Recount: Magazine Article Purpose: To recount	Persuasion: Letter Purpose: To persuade