100 Ideas for Teaching Writing

Pupils across the age range and across the curriculum spend an extraordinary amount of time writing, yet teachers often do not receive much training on how to teach writing. Pupils do not always develop confidence or fulfil their potential. This book shows teachers how to approach the teaching of writing so that they: - Can teach writing as part of the whole curriculum and as a component of pupils' linguistic development - Can teach writing as a process rather than just a product - the process includes: finding ideas, designing briefs, drafting, revising, polishing and presenting - Use assessment as part of a cycle to improve pupils' learning and the teacher's planning The book is full of practical tips including instant lessons, effective resources, and lists of dos and don'ts. Emphasis is put on providing pupils with a sense of purpose, opportunities to write for real and varied audiences, and experience of real life types of writing.

Anthony Haynes has chaired the English Association's Schools Committee

Preface	p. xi
General ideas
Writing and linguistic development	p. 2
Thinking	p. 3
Progression	p. 4
Writing as product and as process	p. 5
The roles of the writer	p. 6
The demands of the writer and those of the reader	p. 7
Who are we writing for?	p. 8
Models	p. 9
Teacher as role model	p. 10
Writing as a process	p. 11
What not to do	p. 12
The start of the process
Incubation	p. 14
Free-writing	p. 15
Intensive writing	p. 16
Verbalization	p. 17
Lists	p. 18
The planning and preparation process
Using diagrams	p. 20
The grid	p. 21
Word budgets	p. 22
Using questions	p. 23
Homework	p. 24
Banning writing	p. 25
Using the first language	p. 26
The drafting process
Teaching drafting by examples	p. 28
Not starting at the beginning	p. 29
Writing frames	p. 30
Anything is better than nothing	p. 31
Avoiding arbitrary rules	p. 32
Writer's block	p. 33
Writing as a solution to writer's block	p. 34
The redrafting process
Sharing examples	p. 36
Symbols for redrafting	p. 37
Other ways of saying	p. 38
Exploiting the imperfection of synonyms	p. 39
Parentheses	p. 40
Cutting	p. 41
Pleonasms	p. 42
Completing the process
What not to do about spelling	p. 44
What to do about spelling	p. 45
Punctuation in general	p. 46
Activating knowledge of symbols	p. 47
Apostrophe of omission	p. 48
Apostrophe of possession	p. 49
Beginning to punctuate speech	p. 50
Beyond inverted commas	p. 51
Teaching checking	p. 52
Presenting and publishing	p. 53
Paired writing	p. 54
Tasks
Setting tasks
A question of purpose	p. 56
Genres and forms	p. 57
Defining the audience	p. 58
Narrative
Narrative openings	p. 59
The story of three objects	p. 60
Designing plots	p. 61
Epistolary fiction	p. 62
Autobiography	p. 63
Work experience	p. 64
Argument
On argument	p. 65
Teaching the language of argument	p. 66
Using drama in argument	p. 67
Staging a trial	p. 68
Parliament	p. 69
Formal debate	p. 70
Summaries	p. 71
Logic	p. 72
Other non-fiction forms
Travel writing	p. 73
Writing instructions	p. 74
Reporting the news	p. 75
Analogies	p. 76
Business plan	p. 77
The Internet
Reviewing and evaluating websites	p. 78
Planning a website	p. 79
Designing a web page	p. 80
Web poetry	p. 81
Response to text
Reviews	p. 82
Writing about plot	p. 83
Imitation	p. 84
Forensic linguistics	p. 85
Author study	p. 86
One-offs and fillers
Balloon debate	p. 88
Writing in the second person	p. 89
Your ideal room	p. 90
Vocabulary and spelling games	p. 91
Constructing texts by playing games	p. 92
Assessment
The place of assessment	p. 94
Selecting and specifying criteria	p. 95
Self-assessment	p. 96
Using symbols for marking	p. 97
Cross-hatching	p. 98
Formative assessment, the art of	p. 99
Designing assessment questions	p. 100
Answering exam questions	p. 101
Teaching the use of time in exams	p. 102
Resources and teacher development
Essential dictionaries	p. 104
Specialized dictionaries	p. 105
Materials	p. 106
Sources of lesson ideas	p. 107
Resources on teaching writing	p. 108
Self-development	p. 109
Letter to a new entrant to the profession	p. 110
References	p. 111
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