Writing about a text

For an exam/test:

• Annotate the question and highlight key words.
• Plan the main points.
• Highlight some quotes.
• Check how your mentee usually writes an answer (eg. make a point, quote, explain ‘PQE’).
• Annotate the quotes to show what they mean.
• THEN start writing, with PQE in the margin to remind them.
• When they have finished, use coloured pens to go back and highlight the PQ and E.
• Remember the point should be short, the explanation is long.

You don’t just have to do exam-style writing!

• Find images to represent key quotes to explore what the language means.
• Write a job application for a character.
• Write a diary entry / Facebook / blog / tweet for a character.
• Role play being a character and your mentee can ask you questions.
• Design a poster for a film of the book.
• Draw the scene in a play/ book and annotate it.
• Story board the main sequences in a play/ text.
• Change the ending to make it happy/ sad/ a cliff hanger.
• Change where it is set- if story was set in a spaceship what would happen?