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.
Pie’s Poetry Unit – ‘What are you?’
Pie Corbett demonstrates how you can use a simple version of a repeating poem like What are you? to liberate the imagination of children.
A First Poetry Book – by Pie Corbett and Gaby Morgan
A First Poetry Book is a wonderful introduction to poetry. It includes hundreds of brand-new poems from the very best poets around, and some timeless gems too. Arranged by topic, it includes poems about: fairies, mermaids and princesses; monsters, mythical creatures and dinosaurs; transport; pets and animals; families; seasons and weather; school; people who help us; pirates; the senses; space; feelings; holidays and festivals; …
The Works 4 – chosen by Pie Corbett and Gaby Morgan
The Works 4 is divided into twenty-six alphabetical sections featuring poems about: The ark and other creatures, boys’ stuff, celebrations and festivals, dinosaurs, dragons and dodos, elements, seasons and the natural world, friends and families, girls’ stuff, home life, impossible and incredible, journeys, kissing and other things best avoided, love, death, war and peace, monsters, ghosts and ghouls, nonsense, ourselves and others, people and places, queens, kings and historical stuff, rescuing the world, senses and feeling, teachers, unpleasant things, viewpoint, wonder, x-words and wordplay, young and old, and zapping aliens.
A Portable Paradise – a great poetic stimulus
How to write poems inspired by the Roger Robinson poem A Portable Paradise.
The Highwayman – model text, teaching notes and worked examples
Talk for Writing consultant Jamie Thomas explains how a model text can be used to help pupils explore character through levels of formality and perspective. Below is the model text, teaching notes and worked examples.
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…”
Evidence of Dragons by Pie Corbett
Evidence of Dragons brings together Pie Corbett’s brilliant poems for the very first time.