Gateway to Writing, on the National Strategies website, includes guidance on the role of the practitioner, boys and writing, writing provision for boys, developing handwriting, and learning about sentences.
There are ideas on developing the environment to encourage children's independent writing and on engaging reluctant boys, with role play suggested as an area where boys can be urged to see writing as purposeful.
One case study looks at how a practitioner set out to tackle the reluctance of a group of boys to write by setting up an outdoor garage service bay with MOT certificates and pads to note what repairs were needed. She took a series of digital photographs the children used for sequencing a bike being serviced. She encouraged the children to talk about what they had done and together they wrote a bike service manual.
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