This free downloadable Pie Corbett’s Reading Spine support guide provides invaluable support for teachers using Pie Corbett’s Reading Spine to teach comprehension, drama and writing. Guides available for Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6.
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 in the Early Years by Pie Corbett and Julia Strong
Pie Corbett’s groundbreaking Talk for Writing approach has been successfully used by thousands of schools to teach writing creatively in an engaging way that motivates children. Now Pie and Julia take this multi-sensory approach to EYFS settings in Talk for Writing in the Early Years, inspiring language development.
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.
Creating Storytellers and Writers by Pie Corbett and Julia Strong
A key Talk for Writing text, Creating Storytellers and Writers is the long-awaited guide to how to teach children to love writing stories through telling stories. It takes you step-by-step through the Talk for Writing process so the children move from imitation to innovation to independent application.
Leading Talk for Writing in your school
Talk for Writing expert Alison Cooper identifies the questions to address when planning for and leading an effective Talk for Writing project, and how to keep up the momentum in implementing the Talk for Writing approach in your school
Formative assessment: the key to progress
How the 3 stages of the Talk for Writing approach puts formative assessment at the heart of your teaching.
Page Turners – developing children as readers at Maidwell Primary
There is a direct correlation between the amount a child reads, their attainment in reading and the quality of their writing. Knowing this to be an exact correlation within their school attainment, and having spotted Pie’s Y3-6 ‘Page Turners’ sets of books, an idea began to take shape at Maidwell Primary.
Creating a love of reading at Selby Community Primary
Beckie Reeve, Reading Leader at Selby Community Primary School explains how the school has transformed attitudes to reading: “As part of the Literacy Team at Selby CP, I can honestly say that we are well on our way to conquering that real love of reading with our children”.
How to plan writing progression year-on-year
This document is a teaching guide looking at which types of words and what level of grammar should be introduced at each year of the primary curriculum. The document has been updated in line with the 2016 grammar test requirements in England.