Toolkit

DEAL

Resources:

The DEAL poster

Resource from Bedfordshire LA (Thank you!)

How It Works:

To get students to develop their writing to meet the higher band criteria, teach them DEAL.

Describe > Explain > Analyse > Link
Use the Sequence for Teaching Writing to model and scaffold each step.

Variations:

A similar structure to PEE (Point > Evidence > Explore) which can be used to structure analytical paragraphs

More able students can PEAL (Point > Evidence > Analyse > Link)

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