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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.