How do other people make this work?

When we teach English lessons, we embrace the opportunity to look at existing examples of text types, consider features, working together as a group, model and demonstrate.

So here are a few examples of pupil books going well:

What does your class find helpful?

In 5JP, I model accessing the Google Slides file on the screen and leave up the screen below up whilst pupils sign in. However, what has probably helped the most is that Sharon put a lot of time in with the pupils using Chromebooks last year.