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 answers your FAQs: What is reading as a writer?
In this video series, Pie Corbett answers your frequently asked questions. Here, Pie discusses how to delve deeper into model texts to teach children how to read ‘as a writer’, focusing on the author’s crafting of language and their use of literacy devices.
Pie answers your FAQs: What does ‘toolkit’ mean?
In this video series, Pie Corbett answers your frequently asked questions. Here, Pie explains what a writing ‘toolkit’ is, why it is important in the Talk for Writing approach, and how to incorporate toolkits in your planning and teaching, to better enable children to experiment with creative language and literacy devices appropriate to the purpose of their writing task.
Moving from discursive non-fiction writing in English to discursive writing across the curriculum
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.
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.
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…”
Hook your reader toolkit
This is a guide for teachers on how to encourage pupils to write in a way that would ‘hook’ a reader.