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KS3 IMPACT!. Grammar for all ability levels. ?. T: Art Music Sport. G: Other subjects. Grow your own definition. DfES 5-10% of students. teachers. students. So how can we spot our gifted and talented students? What are the key signals?. Conformist Diligent Adult-friendly
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KS3 IMPACT! Grammar for all ability levels
? • T: • Art • Music • Sport • G: • Other subjects Grow your own definition DfES 5-10% of students teachers students
So how can we spot our gifted and talented students? What are the key signals? • Conformist • Diligent • Adult-friendly • Smart presentation • Socially adept • Leadership qualities • Mustn’t grumble • Enjoys problem-solving • Sense of humour • Non-Conformist • Non-completer • Avoids extension tedium • Uncommunicative, surly, challenging, unnerving • Scruffy presentation • detached, even disruptive • Loner or rebel • Scornful • Dark humour
So what should we be aiming to provide for G&T students? And what NOT provide?
NOT • More of the same • Extra handouts • FOFO projects • BUT • Experimentation • Metacognition • Modelled learning • Open questions • Detours and tangents • Humour • Wonder • Creativity • Resilience • ‘Flow’ thinking
DIET KS3 IMPACT! • Challenging but not worthy texts • Focus on style, remodelling, audience • Collaboration, apprenticeship • Explicit use of criteria • Emphasis on language choices • Experience pleasure of analysis, close reading • Lit crit, especially opposing views
GRAMMAR KS3 IMPACT! • Sentence variety • Brevity • Subordination • High level connectives • Experimenting with tense and narrative viewpoint
DIET KS3 IMPACT! • Exposure to lots of texts • Hearing them read aloud and following along • Making punctuation conventions explicit • Demystifying spelling - it’s about coping strategies, not inner gift • High-level confidence-building • Constructive competition • Use bad models • Lots of feedback
Grammar KS3 IMPACT! • Sentence types • Ban commas • Visual writing • First v second v third person • High level connectives • Alternatives to “it was …”
KS3 IMPACT! Grammar for all ability levels
KS3 IMPACT! So what is the essential grammar for all our students?
GRAMMARESSENTIALS • Writing techniques (Non-fiction): • Topic sentences • Headlines / subheadings / puns • Paragraph organisation - main point … illustration … contrast • Connectives • Tense • Sentence functions: statement, command, question, exclamation • Formality / impersonal tones • Layout features • Building an argument: generalisation, supporting points, statistics, facts, quotation
GRAMMARESSENTIALS • Writing techniques (fiction): • Sentence variety for effect: simple, compound, complex* • Multiple narration • Plot - dialogue - description • Location of the speech verb • Direct / indirect speech • Figurative language • Descriptive detail • Point of view