Description
Book SynopsisTalk for Writing, developed by Pie Corbett and supported by Julia Strong, is a proven approach to teaching writing that is engaging and motivating for students and teachers alike.
Building on best practice, this practical guide 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. Every teacher can help students internalize the pattern of language of their subject through focused talk activities related to exemplar text. This enables students to independently generate the sentence patterns and structures that are key to effective communication in any subject.
Julia Strong puts the experience of the learner at the centre. By establishing some consistent approaches across the curriculum, the learner can see how what they learn in one area can be transfer
Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction
Introducing the Talk-for-Writing approach
Laying the foundations
Part Two: The 5 steps to adapting units of work to the Talk-for-Writing approach
Step A: Creating exemplar text that builds in progression
Step B: Warming up the words of the unit
Step C: Warming up the phrases of the unit
Step D: Internalising the tune of exemplar text — the basic approach
Step D continued: More sophisticated approaches to internalising the tune of exemplar text
Step E: Consolidating learning to build in progress
Part Three: Achieving an effective whole-school approach
The first steps to establishing a whole-school approach
Embedding the approach through co-constructing your policy
Appendix: A case study of how the Talk-for-Writing approach relates to maths
