Writing to Discuss – Debate
Writing to Persuade – Speech
In Y6, most children will be able to:
- Use strategies to spell most common words with accuracy
- Use most spelling patterns accurately
- Use dictionaries and thesaurus effectively to support their writing
- Choose which shape of letters to use when given a choice and decide whether or not to join letters
- Use varied sentence structures
- Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity
- Use dashes to mark the boundaries between independent clauses
- Assess the effectiveness of own and other’s writing
- Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to clarify meaning
- Use wider world knowledge to support views when participating in debates
- Choose appropriately formal language when participating in debates and formal discussions
- Structure a persuasive speech effectively
- Use humour appropriately to effectively engage an audience
- Project voice to the back of a large hall and maintain volume and pitch through several short-spoken contributions