WRITING
Writing Cheatsheet
This document was compiled and adapted by Sharon Scurr to support structured and scaffolded written responses for her son at home. It was developed as a practical tool to assist with retrieving, organising, and applying knowledge that has already been explicitly taught, particularly during paragraph and extended writing tasks.
The resource is intended to function as a reference and writing scaffold during learning activities. It is not a formal teaching manual or a comprehensive instructional programme. Rather, it is designed to complement explicit instruction by providing a clear and accessible framework that learners can refer to while developing their writing skills. The document has intentionally been left in Word format so members can adapt, personalise, and expand it to suit the specific needs of their students or children. Any additional PDFs intended to be inserted into particular sections are clearly identified on the contents page, with page numbers provided and highlighted in black for easy reference.
Parents, teachers, and students are welcome to use this resource as a supportive guide when working on paragraph construction and written responses.
- DEB WRITING CHEAT SHEET 06 August 25 Manual
- Writing-Process-Steps
- Two-Column-Notes-3-Types-of-Writing
- thinkSRSD TIDE Poster
- transition-words grades 4-12
- Sentence Types William Van Cleave
- PEEL paragraph planner
- Anchor_Chart_Conjunctions and Basic Sentence types
- Common-Transition-Words-K-to-3-1
- LY_Adverbs_Combined_List
The Writing Rope
Joan Sedita’s innovative Writing Rope weaves multiple skills and strategies into five fundamentals of a comprehensive writing curriculum: critical thinking, syntax (sentences), text structure, writing craft, and transcription (spelling and handwriting). Teachers of Grades 4-8 will get crystal-clear guidelines that demystify the process of helping students learn to write and write to learn across academic content areas. And with dozens of included templates, handouts, and other resources-available for download online-teachers will have all the tools they need to design and deliver explicit, high-quality writing instruction. Adolescent Literacy is focused on intervention.
The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking through Writing in All Subjects and Grades
The Writing Revolution (TWR) provides a clear method of instruction that you can use no matter what subject or grade level you teach. The model, also known as The Hochman Method, has demonstrated, over and over, that it can turn weak writers into strong communicators by focusing on specific techniques that match their needs and by providing them with targeted feedback. Insurmountable as the challenges faced by many students may seem, TWR can make a dramatic difference. And the method does more than improve writing skills. The 2.0 version provides more examples and options on how to scaffold the writing tasks.
Available at any online book store.
William Van Cleave – Writing Matters
Writing Matters presents grammar in a systematic, sequential, and structured manner. Students have opportunities to learn about parts of speech through a variety of activities that let them see these components as tools that can be manipulated in sentence construction. Sentence writing is the ultimate application of this process.
Purchased from Silvereye
IEW – Homeschool Programme
IEW’s unique approach provides the structure that students need to develop confidence in the writing process, while gradually guiding them toward greater independence and creativity. Their core writing programme is supported by materials for reading, grammar, spelling, literature, poetry, public speaking and more. IEWs Structure and Style® writing method will give you the ability to fill your student’s toolbox with confidence-building tools, laying the groundwork for a lifetime of excellent writing.
Purchase from Engaging minds New Zealand
How to Build Writing Success Sentence by Sentence By Christine Braid
How to Build Writing Success Sentence by Sentence –The sentence is a key building block for overall improvement in writing yet the technical details can seem daunting to some teachers as well as their students. This resource offers a research-based approach that has proven successful in the classroom in progressing students’ skills with sentences across Years 1 to 8, this book is also suitable for parents. You can read the DEB review on on the Facebook page
Available in hard copy and digital version through Essential Resources
The Sentence Book – Agility With Sound
How to identify, construct and punctuate the various sentence types in English. The package includes a 90+ page book, two laminated double sided tense charts and a USB with student activities. Suitable for intervention for older students.
A short video showing the contents of this resource can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/JgUPKZrCHAQ
You can find a the DEB review on the DEB Facebook page
This document was created by Sharon Scurr founder of the deb in August 2021
Updated – 20 February 2026