Now in an updated second edition How to Teach Writing Across the Curriculum: Ages 6-8 provides a range of practical suggestions for teaching non-fiction writing skills and linking them to children’s learning across the entire curriculum. Providing a number of suggestions for teachers and putting emphasis on creative approaches to teaching children writing in diverse and innovative ways, it provides:
- techniques for using speaking and listening, drama and games to prepare for writing
- suggestions for the use of cross-curricular learning as a basis for writing
- planning frameworks and ‘skeletons’ to promote thinking skills
- information on key language features of non-fiction texts
- examples of non-fiction writing
- guidance on the process of creating writing from note-making.
With new hints and tips for teachers and suggestions for reflective practice, How to Teach Writing Across the Curriculum: Ages 6-8 will equip teachers with all the skills and materials needed to create enthusiastic non-fiction writers in their primary classroom.
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| Introduction: teaching writing |
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| From speech to writing |
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| Learning to write |
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| Why writing is important |
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| The foundations of literacy |
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| When should writing start? |
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PART 1 The two horses model for cross-curricular writing |
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Learn cross-curricular content |
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Organise content for learning |
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Listen > imitate > innovate > invent |
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Reading aloud to children |
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Talk the language of writing |
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Two horses before the cart -- reprise |
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Case study 1 Our day at school |
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Case study 3 Grace Darling |
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Case study 1 Healthy and unhealthy foods |
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Case study 2 How we are different |
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Case study 3 Seaside holidays |
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Case study 1 Honey biscuits |
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Case study 2 Honey biscuits (four- and five-year-olds) |
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Case study 3 How to cross the road |
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Case study 1 How babies grow |
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PART 3 Teaching materials |
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| Appendix 1 Nuts and bolts: some suggestions for teaching writing skills |
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| Appendix 2 Shared, Guided and Independent Writing |
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| Appendix 3 Case study materials |
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Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and education consultant. Specialising in the teaching of literacy, she has authored over 150 books and has contributed to numerous television programmes and software packages. She is the author of Speaking Frames: How to Teach Talk for Writing: Ages 8-10 and Speaking Frames: How to Teach Talk for Writing: Ages 10-14, also published by Routledge.
