1st Edition

Introducing Teachers’ Writing Groups Exploring the theory and practice

By Jenifer Smith, Simon Wrigley Copyright 2016
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Teachers’ writing groups have a significantly positive impact on pupils and their writing. This timely text explains the importance of teachers’ writing groups and how they have evolved. It outlines clearly and accessibly how teachers can set up their own highly effective writing groups. In this practical and informative book, the authors: share the thinking and practice that is embodied by... Read more

1. Why Teachers’ Writing Groups?  2. Teachers’ Writing Groups: a brief history  3. Approaching Writing and Writing Teachers  4. Composing  5. Writing Histories  6. Setting up a Teachers’ Writing Group  7. Notebooks  8. Responding  9. Writing in Different Spaces  10. Reading into Writing and Back Again  11. Reflecting on writing  12. Our Own Writing: what do teachers write?  13. Reflecting on Teaching  14. Establishing children’s writing groups  15. Observations and Encounters with Children Writing  16. Making Assessments of Writing  17. Writing Groups – from community to classroom and from classroom to community  18. What’s in it for my School?  19. Afterword  20. Books and Websites

Biography

Jenifer Smith is Senior Lecturer in Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Simon Wrigley is a retired English Adviser (Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and former Chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English, UK.