Talk for Writing consultant Jamie Thomas talks through the Talk for Reading planning process, discussing the importance of working with high- quality texts and using strategies that enable children to develop deep, meaningful understanding.
Grammar into Writing using Traction Man
Maria Richards walks you through how to plan lessons that teach grammar in context, using Mini Grey’s story Traction Man with a Year 2 group.
Top Drama Techniques to use in Talk for Writing and Talk for Reading
There’s nothing quite like using drama to allow children to deepen their understanding of a text, whether you’re studying it as a reader or studying it as a writer. Maria Richards, Talk for Writing Primary Expert, introduces a range of tried-and-tested drama activities that allow children to get below the surface of a text and interact with it at a …
Talk for Reading at KS1 – How to plan a unit
Talk for Writing and Reading consultant Jamie Thomas talks through the Talk for Reading planning process at KS1, discussing the importance of working with high-quality texts and using strategies that enable children to develop deep understanding.
Transforming Learning Across the Curriculum by Julia Strong and Pie Corbett
This guide to making language across the curriculum a practical reality, takes you step-by-step through the Talk for Writing process, showing how to adapt it to suit the linguistic demands of all subject areas. It illustrates how to get students from nine to nineteen to internalise the varying linguistic demands of all subject areas by talking their way to understanding.
The Exquisite Corpse – A grammar based word game
The Exquisite Corpse is a simple grammar game that creates interesting and often bizarre sentences. Pie explains how it’s played
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…”
A new invention – inventing stories with young children
How do we guide young children to invent new stories? Jane Ralphs explains how she and Pie Corbett got the children using props and story maps to independently tell their own stories, through a project in Haringey.
Jumpstart Poetry by Pie Corbett
Jumpstart Poetry is about involving children as creative writers through writing poems. The book contains a bank of ideas that can be drawn upon when teaching poetry but also at other times to provide a source for creative writing that children relish. There are more than 100 quick warm-ups to fire up the brain.
Jumpstart Storymaking by Pie Corbett
Jumpstart Storymaking is a collection of ideas to develop the creative process of ‘storymaking’. Over 100 thought-provoking games and activities, intended to ‘jumpstart’ storytelling, reading and writing in Key Stage 1, 2 or 3 classrooms. Practical, easy and entertaining, the ‘jumpstarts’ will appeal to busy teachers.