When teaching writing, we often find ourselves asking children to use stronger, more powerful, verbs. In this short article, I look at the impact of using strong verbs, how we can model their use to children, and share some examples of strong verbs we can use in our writing sessions.

For many years I've been supporting teachers to teach editing and proofreading using the ARMS and CUPS aide memoire as a systematic approach to editing and proofreading. It’s an incredibly simple approach to evaluating, improving and redrafting and one that the teachers I work with have embraced enthusiastically.