Daily Writing Warm Up

After visiting Haileybury, I have been busy writing and presenting writing warm ups for my students. Daily Writing Warm Ups accomodate all learners. Differentiation is an integral feature to this part of your lesson, as the complex sentence writing task is heavily scaffolded.

Daily Writing Warm Ups meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities as it is heavily scaffolded. Through each component of the writing exercise, students are offered examples and 'self-talk' of how to write a complex sentence. These examples can be copied in a 'write your own adventure' style activity. Conversely, my higher-order thinkers are encouraged to write their own complex sentence.

Any classroom should have on-going feedback, and these warm ups are continuously assessed and checked in-class. This enables students to gain immediate feedback and also means the differentiation of the task can be continuously adjusted according to the learners’ needs.

Proficient Standards

2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies Apply knowledge and understanding of effective teaching strategies to support students’ literacy and numeracy achievement.

3.1 Establish challenging learning goals Set explicit, challenging and achievable learning goals for all students.

3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs Plan and implement well structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning.

3.3 Use teaching strategies Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.

3.4 Select and use resources Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

3.5 Use effective classroom communication Use effective verbal and nonverbal communication strategies to support student understanding, participation, engagement and achievement.

4.1 Support student participation Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities.