1st Edition
Real-World Writers: A Handbook for Teaching Writing with 7-11 Year Olds
Part A
Preface
Chapter 1. Why Real-World Writing?
Chapter 2. How Real-World Writing Works
Chapter 3. Welcome Project: Setting Up Your Community Of Writers For The Year
Chapter 4. Will They Remember Writing It? How To Plan A Class Writing Project
Chapter 5. Teaching The Writing Processes
Chapter 6. How To Teach An Effective Writing Lesson: Using Writing Workshop
Chapter 7. Setting Up Writers’ Notebooks & Personal Writing Projects
Chapter 8. Meeting Children Where They Are: Conducting Effective Pupil Conferences
Chapter 9. They Do The Hard Work So You Don’t Have To: Marking & Target Setting
Chapter 10. Oh For Literature’s Sake! How To Build Reading - Writing Connections
Chapter 11. Thinking Through Writing: Writing Across The Curriculum
Chapter 12. Assessing Your Writers
Chapter 13. Support For Early, Advanced And EAL Writers
Chapter 14. Growing A School Of Extraordinary Writers: Advice For Writing Coordinators
Chapter 15. A Guide To Becoming A Writer-Teacher
Chapter 16. Frequently Asked Questions And Answers To Them
Chapter 17. Terminology
Chapter 18. References & Further Reading
Part B
Chapter 19. Introduction To Part B
Chapter 20. Poetry
Chapter 21. Memoir
Chapter 22. Narrative
Chapter 23. Non-Fiction
Chapter 24. Persuading & Opinion
Chapter 25. History Genres
Index
Biography
Ross Young was a primary school teacher for 10 years and holds an MA in applied linguistics in education. As a passionate writer-teacher, he now works around the UK and abroad helping teachers and schools develop extraordinary young writers.
Felicity Ferguson was a primary school teacher for 40 years, working as an EAL specialist, SENCO, deputy and head teacher. A writer herself, she has MA degrees in applied linguistics and children’s literature and has been involved in a number of literacy-based projects, particularly around children’s reading development.
"There is much to commend in this readable, nicely illustrated guide... This book is a step in the right direction towards empowering teachers to give children autonomy as writers. It has the virtue of setting out a clear rubric for teaching, based upon largely sound principles."- Francis Gilbert, Teaching English (NATE)
