Photos for Writing is a free teaching resource created by Pie Corbett (with photographs by Nicola Stables).It is a repository of ideas for using photos or other images in the classroom to spark writing.
Pie answers your FAQs: How does shared writing work in the classroom?
In this video series, Pie Corbett answers your frequently asked questions. In this video, Pie gives a introduction to the concept of shared writing and its benefits within the Talk for Writing approach, along with some ideas on how to work shared writing into your teaching practice. He also touches on guided writing.
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.
Using a Writer’s Journal or Magpie book
Jamie Grossmith at Belmont Primary in Grantham explains how his class use writing journals to store and develop ideas.
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.