Description
Book SynopsisPie Corbettâs ground-breaking 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 Early Years settings introducing a simple way to inspire young childrenâs language development through storytelling.Children learn language through memorable, meaningful repetition. The Talk for Writing approach enables children to internalise the language of story so that they can imitate it, innovate on it and create their own effective stories independently.
Talk for Writing in the Early Years will show you how to put rhyme and story at the heart of your work with children and parents so that young learners language development and creativity flourishes.
This multimedia resource shows you how to:
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Table of ContentsPart 1: Developing the Talk-for-Writing Approach
1 The centrality of story and the origins of Talk for Writing
2 Aladdin’s Cave: The ‘Talk for Writing and Learning’ classroom
3 Telling your first story
4 Imitation: Creating the bank of story ideas
5 Imitation: Helping the children become storytellers
6 Innovation
7 Invention: Moving from imitation to independent invention
8 Invention: Ideas for inventions and the movement from telling to writing
Part 2: Involving Families
9 Why involving parents matters
10 The storytelling process as the key to family involvement
Appendix 1: Sentence, spelling and story games
Appendix 2: The early years story bank
Appendix 3: A dozen picture books ideal for retelling
