Photos for Writing

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: What do Talk for Writing schools do?

Programme Primary Schools video

In this video series, Pie Corbett answers your frequently asked questions. Here, Pie talks through the Talk for Writing primary school programme, detailing how the elements link up to aid cumulative learning and Literacy progression from the Early Years to Key Stage 2.

An introduction to the Talk for Reading planning process

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.

Teaching Handwriting

Talk for Writing Primary Expert Emma Caulfield gives an introduction to the process of teaching and developing handwriting in school.

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.