Talk for writing

Talk for Writing: Continuing professional development

'Talk for Writing' grew out of a series of workshops that professional writer Pie Corbett presented on behalf of the National Strategies in 2008 and is built around the experience of teachers who subsequently developed these approaches in their own classrooms.
Talk for Writing resources

Talk for Writing resources that are intended to support teachers, which include video presentations by Pie Corbett, case study videos and transcripts.
Talk for Writing

Overview of 'Talk for Writing' and its learning objectives (Ref: 00467-2008DVD-EN).
- What is Talk for Writing?
  
  An overview of what is Talk for Writing.
- Book-talk
  
  An overview of what is 'book-talk' and the 'book-talk' approach.
- Writer-talk
  
  An overview of what is 'writer-talk'.
- Storytelling and story-making
  
  An overview of what is storytelling and story-making.
- Word and language games
  
  Examples of talk games and activities that can be beneficial in supporting the development of writing.
- Role-play and drama
  
  An overview of what is role-play and drama.
Talk for Writing in Reception

Helping children to internalise story patterns and language by focussing on storymaking which is one type of purposeful talk - Talk for Writing.
Talk for writing in practice

Teachers views about 'Talk for Writing'.
- Reception
  
  Video resources of how a teacher and other teachers have integrated Talk for Writing into their teaching.
- Year 2
  
  Example of a Year 2 teaching plan and video resources of how a teacher and other teachers have integrated Talk for Writing into their teaching.
- Year 3
  
  Example of a Year 3 teaching plan, writing samples and video resources of how a teacher integrated Talk for Writing into their teaching approach.
- Year 4
  
  Example of a Year 4 teaching plan, writing samples and video resources of how a teacher integrated Talk for Writing into various stages of the teaching sequence for writing.
- Case studies
  
  Case studies of five teachers who attended the Talk for Writing workshops and a case study of using Anansi stories in the classroom.
Integrating Talk for Writing into your literacy planning

An introduction to integrating Talk for Writing into your literacy planning.
- Planning a literacy unit
  
  Provides an outline of the steps to integrating Talk for Writing into a Primary Framework literacy.
- Planning guided writing
  
  Provides an outline of the steps to integrating Talk for Writing into guided writing planning.
- Planning provision for all children
  
  Suggested areas on how to plan for the provision of all children.
Developing learning through Talk for Writing

Pedagogy examples which suggest how Talk for Writing might be used to support many of the pupil writing targets from the Primary Literacy Framework.
Talk for Writing CPD presentation

Presentation slides to support presentation of the day.
Talk for Writing CPD pre-course task

A brief outline of the simple classroom observation task participants are asked to undertake before attending the day.
Good writers

Document on how learners can become good writers, by Pie Corbett.

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