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.
Transforming Learning Across the Curriculum by Julia Strong and Pie Corbett
This guide to making language across the curriculum a practical reality, takes you step-by-step through the Talk for Writing process, showing how to adapt it to suit the linguistic demands of all subject areas. It illustrates how to get students from nine to nineteen to internalise the varying linguistic demands of all subject areas by talking their way to understanding.
Descriptosaurus – by Alison Wilcox
Descriptosaurus positions the word, zooms in on it to examine the meaning, expands it into phrases, and then provides alternatives in words, phrases and sentences. The model was created and refined over a number of years as a result of feedback from children inside and outside the classroom as to the resources they required to inspire and assist them with their …
Clock Close
TfW Trainer Dean Thompson has put together a brand new model text – a portal story which links to both history and geography. “There were no clocks in Clock Close…”
“Talk for Writing is potentially transformational” – John of Gaunt Secondary School
John of Gaunt School in Trowbridge is our newest secondary Talk for Writing training centre. Deputy Headteacher, Louise Hamilton, outlines how they’ve successfully implemented the TfW approach across a secondary school.
Talk for Writing in Secondary Schools by Julia Strong
Building on best practice, Talk for Writing in Secondary Schools takes you step by step through how to establish quality written communication across the secondary curriculum. It can be used as a handbook by a literacy coordinator to lead the approach as well as being a source of practical ideas for each subject area.
Talk for Writing Across the Curriculum by Pie Corbett and Julia Strong
The bestselling Talk for Writing Across the Curriculum has been fully updated, putting formative assessment at the heart of the process and showing how to help children love writing across the curriculum. Designed for busy teachers, the book will help transform children’s writing and attainment across the curriculum.
Not a linguist? With iLanguages – not a problem!
iLanguages is meeting the challenge of the compulsory primary language curriculum by providing teachers with a highly innovative and engaging scheme which has been designed to ensure that teachers with little knowledge or confidence of French and Spanish are able to effectively deliver language lessons.
A guide to successful class blogging
James Walker from Knowle Park Primary School in Bristol shares his tips on what he has found effective when writing blogs with his class.