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.
Write a shape poem
Pie Corbett provides some hints and tips to help your class write a shape or observation poem. This video is taken from the Igniting Writing ‘Waterworlds’ interactive whiteboard CD-ROM.
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.
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
How to use Pinterest to collect and organise your Talk for Writing ideas
Talk for Writing expert Maria Richards explains how Pinterest can be a useful tool for managing and sharing resources. Pinterest is a virtual pin board that allows you to ‘pin’ useful resources, activities, ideas and sites from the web.
Building a poetry spine
In this free four-page resource written by Pie Corbett, Pie explains how to build a bank of poems to use with children at KS1.
Writing toolkits – story secrets
In this two-page document written by Pie Corbett, Pie explains how it can be useful for children to use writing toolkits when constructing a narrative. Pie focuses on using writing toolkits in these areas: 1. Characterisation and dialogue; 2. Description – people, places, objects, creatures; 3. Dilemma – suspense and action; and 4. Crafting the opening and ending.
Connectives and sentence signposts: the art of linking text
“Understanding the power of sentence signposts to link paragraphs, sentences, and information within sentences is key to achieving cohesive text that flows logically. They take the reader by the hand and guide them through the text somewhat like a sat nav guides a driver”.
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.