The aim of this document is to provide guidance for teachers, and learning support assistants where appropriate, on ways to teach writing skills in order to help learners to become more effective writers. This document is designed to raise awareness of the many individual skills that a learner has to grasp (including consideration of the content of their writing, the ideas, arguments or plot) when learning to write. Faced with such multiple challenges it is not surprising that young learners, or those identified by school data as underattaining in literacy, make many errors when they try to do all this at once. This document suggests, therefore, that attention needs to.
