A fantastic book of really great poems for Reception and Year 1 and 2. It contains poems which cover every form and theme of the Literacy Strategy, an index of poem types, advice for writing poems, advice for reading poems, lots of poetry activities and some workshop ideas and lesson plans.
Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series. The new editions are revised in line with the new literacy framework and bring you new models. Writing Models aims to help teachers cover every sort of writing type they need; fine tune lessons by following key teaching points for each model; and deliver the new literacy units to pupils of varying ability using different versions of the same model.
• Interactive ebook with 'Time to Write' and 'Writing Tips' waiting to be revealed at the press of a button • Learn how to create your own characters, captivate your readers, set up great scenarios and end with the ultimate twist • Chapters include Flights of Fantasy, Tricks of the Trade, Putting Pen to Paper and Editing and Publishing. A good fantasy takes you out of this world and creates a world that is wonderful and real. So why not write your own? This book gives you all you need to entrance your readers and get them searching for clues. Full of tips, advice and new ways of approaching creative writing, this is a handy guide for every aspiring writer.
Teachers who want to cut planning time and save energy should welcome this series. It will help teachers to: cover every sort of writing type they need to at Key Stage with a model provided for each one; fine tune lessons by following key teaching points for each model; deliver the literacy hour to pupils of every ability using different versions of the same model.
This bestselling resource has been fully updated, putting formative assessment at the heart of the Talk for Writing process and showing how to help children love writing across the curriculum. By helping children speak the language of non-fiction in a fun engaging way before they attempt to write, the Talk for Writing approach builds children's confidence and linguistic ability enabling them to craft their own writing. In the new edition, this practical resource offers: • Fully worked, tried and tested examples of how to apply Talk for Writing to each non-fiction text type • A wide range of fun activities helping children internalise how to express and link text effectively • A process that co-constructs learning so that children learn how to structure text and create toolkits of key ingredients • Guidance for teachers in England on how to apply the approach across the primary curriculum • An OLC including new footage of Pie Corbett demonstrating Talk for Writing and new footage of classes engaged in the approach • Advice on how to use the DVD and handouts to train all staff in the approach • Evidence of impact from cold to hot tasks Designed for busy teachers, Talk for Writing across the Curriculum, second edition, will help transform children's writing and attainment across the curriculum. "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 "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 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
How to Teach Fiction Writing is a practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children's storywriting. The book presents a series of essential writing workshops full of creative ideas and fun activities. It also offers a range of advice including how to set up and run an effective workshop and how t
How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet
Pie Corbett’s 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 children’s 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: • Select a story or rhyme the children will enjoy and tell it engagingly, encouraging the children to join in •Use a story map so they can picture what happens •Use actions to reinforce meaning and emphasise key language patterns •Help children build a bank of tales, developing their linguistic repertoire The 2 OLCs contain: 1 Footage of Pie Corbett conferences with EY teachers showing Talk for Writing in action 2 Clips of nursery children engaged in the Talk for Writing approach 3 Advice on how to use the OLC and handouts to train all staff in the approach 4 Interviews with parents and nursery school teachers on the impact of Talk for Writing 5 21 stories with story maps
Ten Tiny Teddies is part of the Start Reading series, which uses phonic methods to introduce young readers to the alphabet, vowel sounds, consonant blends and rhymes, and reinforces learning with activity pages and games.
How to Teach Story Writing Ages 4-7 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet running workshops in schools. These workshops focus on growing the roots of story writing through story telling and reading, and begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama, role-play and art, and a few model stories are provided for story telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories, based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children, and demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic, creative and imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework. Workshops include the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug, stuff and nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; and cooking the story soup. New to this edition CD containing bank of downloadable models and some whole stories to complement extracts used in the book Expanded creative contexts around each story Drama exercises Reading as a reader exercises Reading as a writer exercises - drawing on classic literature Shared writing projects Additional advice on teacher feedback and pupil to pupil feedback Children developing story telling References to the PNS will be removed and new pedagogical features with teacher 'hints and tips' will be added throughout Increased emphasis on reflective practice Appendices updated to reference new UK government focus on phonics.
Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series, revised in line with the new literacy framework in the second edition. Writing Models aims to help teachers cover every sort of writing type they need; fine tune lessons by following key teaching points for each model; and deliver the new literacy units to pupils of varying ability using different versions of the same model. Each book in the series gives you: A bank of easy-to-use, photocopiable models for writing covering poetry, narrative and non-fiction Key teaching points for each model Simpler and harder examples for differentiation The newly revised edition for Year 3 has been fully updated and restructured in line to deliver new units from the new framework and includes new writing models. Lesson planning has never been easier! The new edition of Writing Models Year 3 contains: Stories with familiar settings; traditional tales; myths; fables; legends (new) Poems to perform; shape poems; calligrams (new) and cautionary poems (new Adventures and mysteries; letter writing (new) and script-writing (new) Reports and instructions; broadcasts (new); ICT-texts (new) and persuasive scenarios (new)
• Interactive ebook with 'Time to Write' and 'Writing Tips' waiting to be revealed at the press of a button • Learn how to create your own characters, captivate your readers, set up great scenarios and end with the ultimate twist • Chapters include Flights of Fantasy, Tricks of the Trade, Putting Pen to Paper and Editing and Publishing. A good fantasy takes you out of this world and creates a world that is wonderful and real. So why not write your own? This book gives you all you need to entrance your readers and get them searching for clues. Full of tips, advice and new ways of approaching creative writing, this is a handy guide for every aspiring writer. Author Information Pie Corbett, educationalist and author, is well-known for his books on teaching creative writing, as well as many other educational books, schemes and anthologies. Pie writes widely in the educational press, provides training nationally and works as a poet and storyteller in schools.
TheStories for Writing Teaching Handbook provides an introduction toStories for Writing from Pie Corbett. It includes ideas for embedding storytelling andTalk for Writing in the classroom, as well as step-by-step advice on how to follow theStories for Writing teaching sequence. There is an extensive range of photocopiable Resource Sheets to support children's learning, and exciting ideas for cross-curricular teaching.
• Interactive ebook with 'Time to Write' and 'Writing Tips' waiting to be revealed at the press of a button • Learn how to create your own mysterious characters, plant clues, set up great scenarios and end with the ultimate twist • Chapters include Puzzling Plots, Tricks of the Trade, Putting Pen to Paper and Editing and Publishing A good mystery keeps you guessing what's going to happen next. So why not write your own? This book gives you all you need to intrigue your readers and get them searching for clues. Full of tips, advice and new ways of approaching creative writing, this is a handy guide for every aspiring writer.
Jumpstart! Storymaking is a collection of games and activities to develop the creative process of ‘storymaking’. It focuses upon 'storytelling for writing' as well as creating a whole school culture of storytelling, reading and writing. Storymaking is the process of retelling, innovating and creating new stories. Like the best-selling Jumpstart! Literacy, this book contains imaginative ‘quick-fire' ideas that could be used as creative warm-ups and starters or developed into lessons. There are over 100 provocative and thought-provoking games and activities, intended to ‘jumpstart’ storytelling, reading and writing in any Key Stage 1, 2 or 3 classroom. Practical, easy-to-do and vastly entertaining, the ‘jumpstarts’ will appeal to busy teachers.
The Stories for Writing Teaching Handbook provides an introduction to Stories for Writing from Pie Corbett. It includes ideas for embedding storytelling and Talk for Writing in the classroom, as well as step-by-step advice on how to follow the Stories for Writing teaching sequence. There is an extensive range of photocopiable resource sheets to support children's learning, and exciting ideas for cross-curricular teaching.
Each poem is individually illustrated to best reflect the tone of the poem. Popular, high quality illustrators make the books appealing and engaging. Pie Corbett has written every poem specifically for this series. Start Poetry is part of the successful Adventures in...range. It features model poem types followed by detailed instructions on how to achieve the same style of poem. From riddles and shape poems to haiku and nonsense rhymes.
Story Workshops is a practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children's storywriting. The book presents a series of essential writing workshops full of creative ideas and fun activities. It also offers a range of advice including how to set up and run an effective workshop and how to monitor NLS links. Workshops focus on capturing stories, characterization, creating settings, skilful paragraphing, writing in a variety of genres from myths and fables to adventures and science fiction, and writing style. New to this edition DVD containing extensive footage of various workshops run by Pie Corbett and other teachers during days filming at Penn Wood School in Slough Expanded creative contexts around each story Drama exercises Reading as a reader exercises Reading as a writer exercises – drawing on classic literature Shared writing projects Additional advice on teacher feedback and pupil to pupil feedback Children developing story telling References to the PNS will be removed and new pedagogical features with teacher 'hints and tips' will be added throughout Increased emphasis on reflective practice Appendices updated to reference new UK government focus on phonics
Sue Palmer and Pie Corbett are the best-known names in Primary Literacy. This book distils their vast experience, and the experience of five years of the Literacy Strategy. Enables the reader to discover 'how to really teach with what really works'.
TheStories for Writing CD-ROM contains: three popular storybooks brought to life on the interactive whiteboard with audio and turn-the-page technology, a video of Pie Corbett telling his innovated version of each story, Pie Corbett's story maps for shared storytelling and writing, and a video of Pie Corbett offering helpful support and advice.
PIE CORBETT'S STORYTELLER AGES 7-9 provides a wealth of activities supporting oral story telling, reading and writing stories. The teacher's notes by best-selling author Pie Corbett take each story from DRAGONORY AND OTHER STORIES and provides: * history of the story * activities for reading the story * techniques for telling it and re-telling it out loud * activities that encourage the children to write their own versions.
Sing and Play helps launch the Firm Foundations range of titles for children aged 3-5. Using a popular selection of well-known rhymes, Sing and Play alters the wording to introduce children to simple, non-fiction topics. For example, the lyrics to 'Ring-a-Ring-Roses' will be changed to explain the parts of a flower. Lively and charming books filled with song, movement and activities that all children will enjoy. Each book is illustrated by well-known children's illustrators and contains a glossary of the more complex terms.
TheStories for Writing CD-ROM contains: three popular storybooks brought to life on the interactive whiteboard with audio and turn-the-page technology, a video of Pie Corbett telling his innovated version of each story, Pie Corbett's story maps for shared storytelling and writing, and a video of Pie Corbett offering helpful support and advice.
Part of the best-selling The Works series, this book features poems for happy times, poems of praise as well as poems to help with feelings of confusion and grief, which can be used in an school assembly.
A stunning collection of poems from a master wordsmith. EVIDENCE OF DRAGONS brings Pie Corbett's achingly beautiful poems together for the very first time. His poems are full of the wonder of the ordinary and introduce us to characters and topics as varied as THE LAST UNICORN, MY BROTHER'S PIG, THE DRAGON WHISTLER, STARS, SHADOW PUPPETS and THE CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY. "The Dragon Whistler tucks stars into her pocket, reaches for a sunset; purses her moonlit lips and whistles...
This is a vibrantly practical and engaging book with a solid foundation in research. This book will be an invaluable resource to teachers in both primary and secondary schools." Professor Debra Myhill, Associate Dean for Research, College of Social Science and International Studies, University of Exeter, UK "This is a tremendously rich and exciting book. It is reassuring, in these days when simple views of literacy and its teaching are the only approaches to win official approval, that authors such as Pie Corbett and Julia Strong are able to outline and explore a much more subtle and complex approach." Professor David Wray, Director of the Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK 'Talk for Writing' is a proven approach to teaching creative writing that is fun, engaging and motivating for children. Now you can apply this approach to teaching non-fiction writing across the curriculum. Talk for Writing across the Curriculum shows you how to help children speak the language of non-fiction before they attempt to write it. This is a three-step process using fun, multi-sensory activities. It helps build children's confidence and linguistic ability to such an extent they are able to create their own writing. This practical resource offers: Fully worked, tried and tested examples of how to apply 'Talk for Writing' to each non-fiction text type A wide range of fun, warm-up oral activities such as connective games, Professor Know-It-All, as well as text-based activities such as 'boxing up', creating toolkits and 'magpieing' Guidance for teachers on how to apply the approach across the curriculum DVD of Pie Corbett's workshops with teachers showing 'Talk for Writing' in action Video footage of classes engaged in the 'Talk for Writing' approach Advice on how to use the DVD and handouts to train all staff in the approach Evidence of impact Talk for Writing across the Curriculum is designed for busy teachers in mind and will help them transform their children's writing and attainment across the curriculum.
Fully updated to help teachers deal with the new 2016 Grammar Tests, this second edition presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of grammar in action It includes coverage of the subjunctive and past progressive, selecting which tense is the most definite, identifying when a word is used as a subordinating conjunction/preposition, explaining how a comma can change meaning, and an increased emphasis on the passive. Jumpstart! Grammar will prepare children for any grammar tests on the horizon in an engaging way so that they love playing with words and spinning sentences to make ideas dance. And, of course, they will be able to name the parts if that is what is required. Fun games will focus first on helping children hear the difference various types of grammar can make followed by activities to help them understand what different effects you can create with grammar. Technical terms will only be introduced once the children have established what the various features can do, with a particular focus on those terms that really help children discuss what makes language coherent and effective. This indispensable, practical book celebrates the joys of language and coherent expression; of finding just the right words or phrases to express what you want to say.
Providing a carefully structured programme for the teaching and learning of grammar and punctuation at Key Stages 1 and 2 (Scotland P1-P6), this book introduces terminology, reinforces concepts, and aims to foster a continuing interest in language. The activities are intended to take their place within the children's experience and study of whole texts, giving opportunities to focus on aspects of grammatical interest. Practical teacher's notes are included, together with a check-list to record progress.
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