Talk for Writing Across the Curriculum With DVDs: How to Teach Non- Fiction to 5-12 Year-Olds

Description

Review "This latest update of Pie and Julia's best-selling book reflects changes in the curriculum, strengthening the T4W approach, using cold and hot tasks, showing new worked examples of how to apply T4W to each non-fiction type and placing formative assessment at the heart of the process.  It is exciting to see how all the best ideas and findings in education are converging, evidenced in this latest 'up to the minute' excellent publication." --Shirley Clarke, Formative Assessment Expert "The teaching of reading has always taken priority in policy and practice in literacy. Pie Corbett and Julia Strong have produced a very welcome counterweight to that dominance in their Talk for Writing Across the Curriculum. It is so refreshing to see suggestions for teaching to bring elements of language together, especially when done in such an entertaining and engaging way as this. This new edition makes a 'classic' even better." --David Wray, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK"This book celebrates the importance of talk in becoming and growing as a writer: talk to share ideas; talk to analyse text; talk to co-construct writing; and to talk to evaluate writing.  Throughout the book constantly underlines the importance of talk for learning and the many creative and rich ways talk can be used to help young writers internalise the rhythms and patterns of text.  Full of practical ideas and activities, the teaching combines being creative and being critical in a wholly integrated way.  An invaluable resource for primary school teachers!" --Debra Myhill, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, UK About the Author Pie Corbett is an inspirational trainer, poet, author and editor of over 250 books, including the bestselling Jumpstart! Literacy. A former head teacher, lecturer and English inspector, he is widely known for developing the transformational Talk for Writing approach. Julia Strong now works with Pie Corbett on developing Talk for Writing. A former English teacher, deputy head and Deputy Director of the National Literacy Trust, she is an inspirational trainer and the author of a number of bestselling books including Talk for Writing in Secondary Schools (2013).