A new collection of exciting reads by top authors, specially selected by literacy expert Pie Corbett for sharing with your class. The Page Turners collection practise the core reading habits developed in Pie Corbett’s Reading Spine, while promoting independent reading and reading for pleasure. For Years 3-6.
Pie Corbett’s Reading Spine
“Imagine a school where, over seven or eight years, children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with a core of around 80 books. These ‘essential reads’ would be a store of classics, creating a living library inside a child’s mind. Schools with a reading spine build a common story bank, binding the community together”.
Pie Corbett’s Reading Spine support guide
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
Story reading into writing
In this document Pie Corbett explains the concept of reading as a writer and the processes involved in teaching children to understand and use different styles of writing. The document also includes toolkits for use in class.
The 3 ‘eyes’: invention/independent application
These files contain guidance on teaching the three stages of the Talk for Writing process (Imitation, Innovation and Invention/Independent Application) at the Foundation Stage. Each download is one-side of A4 that takes you through the key processes and key points at each stage.