Strategies for ...
Motivating boys to write:
- Role play
- Oral rehearsal
- Make it relevant to them
- Books – read to them, get them to choose texts
- Use boy-friendly topics
- Find male role model readers/writers
- Use a stimulus, e.g. minecraft, dinosaurs, etc.
- Lots of scaffolding – sentence openers, facts, connectives
- Use visual resources
- Give lots of praise and incorporate rewards
- Housepoints for including key words
- Target lines in books - write down to this line
- Give them options to write about – don’t always tell them what they 'must' do
- Use iPads
- Give clear success criteria
- Create competitions
- Use scaffolds with pictures as prompts
- Ask them to write about what they like – follow their interests
- Do a shared write with reluctant children as editors