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Writing frame for guided writing
Early Years (EYFS) / Key Stage 1 (KS1) / Key Stage 2 (KS2)
Information, instruction, story, creative and all writing activities

This writing frame is ideal for a guided writing activity across the key stages. The resource includes a pre-written dinosaur themed sentence, suitable for a dinosaur topic “They are herbivores with a long neck.” there are 6 sentences, great for guided reading/writing with a small, lower ability group.

1. Separate the sentences and give 1 to each child.
2. Have each child point to each word as you read it aloud - see if they can spot your tricky words or sounds they know.
3. Read it together again, pointing to each word.
4. Cut the sentence up as they read each word.
5. The children stick the sentence back in the correct order on the writing template - looking for clues like the capital letter, full stop, tricky words and familiar sounds.
6. Choose a title to copy or write their own at the top.
7. Independently, children draw a picture of the dinosaur in the space.

To differentiate, children can reorder it as a group, or write the sentence instead of cutting it up. To challenge: can they write their own additional sentence about the dinosaur?

Re-use the writing frame for all your writing activities! Suitable for instruction, information and story writing too.

This prints as a PDF in A4 size. You can increase the size to A3 to create and “teacher copy” to model the activity.