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Key Stage 1: Teach strategies to help pupils successfully plan and monitor their own writing You’re probably doing this already. Teach handwriting and spelling explicitly alongside these strategies. This means that once those elements are more automatic for pupils, they can focus on what they're writing. Introduce the following strategies with modelling and structured support, then reduce your input so pupils can work more independently. Pre-writing activities: Help pupils generate and organise ideas. These could be arranged visually using a planning tool. Read more about pre-writing activities on page 31 of the Improving Literacy in Key Stage
