Full Description
Drawing on the author's personal experience, this book provides a deeper understanding of how children experience the writing process in primary school. The framework termed 'think for writing' demonstrates that training children in creative writing and providing creative thinking opportunities can develop their writing and improve their confidence in writing.
Aimed at all teachers and trainees, it examines each element of the framework: the thinking environment, task design, training creative thinking, the building blocks of the writing process, and developing children's creative self-efficacy. This range of ideas and approaches across all elements of the writing process that teachers can adapt, adopt and apply to their own practice. This book also demonstrates that a lot of the key work in developing writing is done in between the building blocks of the writing process. This work in the gaps includes process feedback and feedback on the application of ideas.
Ultimately, this book provides a resource for teachers to develop their writing pedagogy and children's outcomes whilst meeting National curriculum for England and Wales requirements and demands of standardised testing. Teachers can feel a lot more assured when designing units of work in primary English with this helpful framework, that provides them with this knowledge and details on how to apply it.
Contents
Introduction - 'Think for Writing': What? Where? Why? How? Chapter 1: The architect's brief: What is so hard about writing? Chapter 2: Choosing the tools: Creative thinking skills Chapter 3: Laying the foundations Chapter 4: The building blocks Chapter 5: The importance of cement: Connecting the blocks Chapter 6: Working between the gaps Chapter 7: Call the scaffolders: the role of the task Chapter 8: Here comes the building inspector: Assessment and learning Chapter 9: The big reveal: What they said Chapter 10: Changing the landscape
