Upper KS2 teacher Jamie Grossmith shows how his class applied the skills they learnt about discursive writing in English to History, building their skills across a year.
Sightings of dragons
Pie Corbett outlines a work unit which includes diary entries, persuasive writing, shared writing, boxing up a recount and features four model texts. IMAGE: Alexander Zick (published 1899) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Talk for Writing in secondary maths classrooms
Zeb Friedman, Maths Adviser and AST maths teacher shares the application of Talk for Writing in maths teaching at Varndean School, Brighton and Hove. “This was comparing maths to written communication in a direct and explicit way. The strategy that makes so much sense to me is ‘boxing up’”.