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Grammar for all
ability levels
?
T:
G:
•Art
•Other
subjects
•Music
Grow your own definition
•Sport
DfES
5-10% of students
teachers students
So how can we spot our
gifted and talented
students?
What are the key signals?
Conformist
Non-Conformist
•Diligent
•Adult-friendly
•Smart presentation
•Socially adept
•Leadership qualities
•Mustn’t grumble
•Enjoys problem-solving
•Sense of humour
•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
BUT
•More of the same
•Experimentation
•Extra handouts
•Metacognition
•FOFO projects
•Modelled learning
•Open questions
•Detours and tangents
•Humour
•Wonder
•Creativity
•Resilience
•‘Flow’ thinking
DIET
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•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
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GRAMMAR
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•Sentence variety
•Brevity
•Subordination
•High level connectives
•Experimenting with tense and narrative
viewpoint
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•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
•Sentence types
•Ban commas
•Visual writing
•First v second v third person
•High level connectives
•Alternatives to “it was …”
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KS3 IMPACT!
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So what is the essential
grammar for all our
students?
GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS
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
GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS
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
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