Literacy Support

WAGOLL Tutorial

A video guiding you through the elements of the speech answering the guiding question, showing you how it was crafted and structured.

Need help building more complex sentences? Use some of these subordinating conjunctions to develop your simple sentences.

Make sure you're using a range of punctuation to develop your ideas.

Here are a few more sentence starters to help you add some variety.

Frayer Model Tutorial

(A short watch 5:44)

Can't remember how to use the Frayer Model to develop your vocabulary? Watch this video, then have a go!

How do I create a quotation explosion?

(A short watch 8:52)

A quick video to demonstrate how you might go about writing a quotation explosion to help explore the writer's use of language and the effect of specific key words.

Got 10 minutes to spare? Click here to write a paragraph about the quotation in this video.

Reading Skills Ladder

Use this to help you structure your paragraphs.

CHALLENGE: Could you use more sophisticated sentence starters?

How well have you JOLTed your work?

Are you really responding to critique as well as you could?

Take a look at this rubric and see how well you're improving your work through the drafting process.

Peer Critique Rubric

Building Sentences

A great way to think about how we can build sentences by including a range of devices to add complexity. Remember, you don't have to make every sentence full of devices; variety is good.

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