How to Teach Writing Across the Curriculum: Ages 6-8 (Writers’ Workshop Series), 2nd ed

✍ Scribed by Sue Palmer

• Publisher: Routledge (an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group)
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 108
• Series: Writers’ Workshop Series
• Edition: Two
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: teaching writing......Page 10
PART 1 The two horses model for cross-curricular writing......Page 14
1.1 Talk for learning......Page 15
1.2 Talk for writing......Page 22
PART 2 Case studies......Page 30
2.1 Recount writing......Page 31
2.2 Report text......Page 37
2.3 Instruction writing......Page 42
2.4 Explanation writing......Page 48
PART 3 Teaching materials......Page 54
3.1 Recount text......Page 55
3.2 Report text......Page 61
3.3 Instruction text......Page 68
3.4 Explanation text......Page 74
PART 4 Appendices......Page 82
Appendix 1 Nuts and bolts: some suggestions about teaching writing skills......Page 83
Appendix 2 Shared, Guided and Independent Writing......Page 102
Appendix 3 Case study materials......Page 106