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How can we improve children’s motivation to write?
May 3rd, 2023
A list of great texts which teach great writing: Mentor texts for 3-103 year olds
May 1st, 2023
Reading different types of fiction in the writing classroom
April 28th, 2023
The Writing For Pleasure Centre’s progression for poetry writing: EYFS-KS2
April 26th, 2023
The Writing For Pleasure Centre’s progression for nonfiction writing: EYFS-KS2
April 24th, 2023
The Writing For Pleasure Centre’s progression for narrative writing: EYFS-KS2
April 21st, 2023
Articles & resources to help you develop a cohesive approach and progression for writing in your school
April 19th, 2023
Writing: Articles and resources to help you with your school’s action plan
April 17th, 2023
What the KS1 STA teacher assessment writing statements really mean and how to achieve them
April 14th, 2023
What the KS2 STA teacher assessment writing statements really mean and how to achieve them
April 13th, 2023
14 ways to improve the writing teaching in your school
April 11th, 2023
How we can improve the confidence of struggling writers
April 11th, 2023
Reading different types of nonfiction in the writing classroom
April 8th, 2023
What does the research say about reading in writing lessons?
April 6th, 2023
Why ‘Writing For Pleasure’ teachers are always teaching
April 5th, 2023
Trust the process: setting process goals
April 3rd, 2023
Establishing publishing goals for class writing projects
April 2nd, 2023
How do we develop writing fluency?
March 30th, 2023
Being a reader-writer-teacher
March 28th, 2023
A quick guide to class sharing and Author’s Chair
March 25th, 2023
The components of an effective writing unit
March 22nd, 2023
Teaching children how to plan their writing in KS2
March 17th, 2023
The Science of Special Education Podcast: Providing research-based writing instruction
March 11th, 2023
Teaching children how to plan their writing in the EYFS and KS1
March 9th, 2023
You’re their writer-teacher! Supporting children to find fruitful writing ideas
March 7th, 2023
How to help children plan great writing
March 1st, 2023
Suggested writing practices for children with behavioural or emotional disorders
February 28th, 2023
Research-based writing practices specific to the EYFS
February 20th, 2023
Getting writing instruction right for children with SEND
February 17th, 2023
Writing For Pleasure and the role children’s emotions play in exceptional writing classrooms
February 16th, 2023
The cognitive and motivational case for inviting children to generate their own writing ideas
January 21st, 2023
Evidence-based writing instruction for children with SEND
January 14th, 2023
The components of effective sentence-level instruction
December 29th, 2022
Why diversity in writing matters! Exploring the Writing Realities framework
November 16th, 2022
Children proof-reading and cognitive overload
November 5th, 2022
Imaginative writing: Our viewpoint
October 21st, 2022
The secret to children doing great proof-reading
October 20th, 2022
More top tips when talking to children about editing
October 12th, 2022
Top tips when talking to children about editing
October 4th, 2022
Eight tips for developing great proof-readers
September 26th, 2022
What is a Writing For Pleasure pedagogy?
September 15th, 2022
The components of an effective writing lesson
July 22nd, 2022
A whole generation of children have been put on ‘writers’ welfare’
July 19th, 2022
The direct and indirect effects model of writing
July 15th, 2022
How can we ensure children are writing independently every day?
July 13th, 2022
The not so simple view of writing
July 11th, 2022
What to do when you think you don’t have time to write
June 4th, 2022
Response to Ofsted’s research and analysis. Curriculum research review series: English
May 27th, 2022
Getting Writing Instruction Right
April 29th, 2022
The Importance Of A Whole-School Vision For Writing
March 31st, 2022
What Sort Of Writing Teacher Are You?
March 24th, 2022
Writing Persuasive Letters For Personal Gain In Year 4
March 22nd, 2022
Spinning A Web Of Great Story Ideas
March 11th, 2022
Having an Ideas Party & taking a Writing Register with Year Four
February 10th, 2022
I want to discuss this! Children writing their own discussion texts
February 3rd, 2022
Mr Creighton, can we send our stories to some experts for feedback?
February 1st, 2022
We’re Going On A Writing Lesson Hunt!
January 13th, 2022
The Education Endowment Foundation’s Improving Literacy In KS2 Guidance Report: Our Review And Implications For Teaching Writing
December 15th, 2021
“What do I do with all these ideas?”
December 13th, 2021
It’s time to make a change!
December 3rd, 2021
The power of children requesting their own writing lessons
November 30th, 2021
Look what happened to my speedy book!
November 25th, 2021
Improving on a first draft: intriguing introductions
November 17th, 2021
Speedy books: making planning authentic
November 12th, 2021
Generating ideas for information texts: thinking ‘Faction’
November 11th, 2021
Calling at the Writing Station
November 9th, 2021
The benefits of building a class library of children’s own writing
November 8th, 2021
What does a knowledge-based writing curriculum involve?
October 5th, 2021
Developing Children’s Talk For Writing
September 13th, 2021
How Important Is Talk For Writing?
August 23rd, 2021
The DfE’s Reading Framework: Our Review And Implications For Teaching Writing
July 13th, 2021
Reluctant Writers: Where Do We Start? By Ellen Counter
July 7th, 2021
Teachers’ Talk Radio Interview with Ross Young & Tobias Hayden
May 31st, 2021
*New minibook* Pupil-conferencing with 3-11 year olds: Powerful feedback & responsive teaching that changes writers
May 27th, 2021
Are you for real? Bringing purpose and authenticity into the writing classroom for Teach Reading & Writing magazine
May 24th, 2021
NATE: What can we learn from Writing for Pleasure teachers? for Primary Matters magazine
May 5th, 2021
The research on handwriting
April 20th, 2021
The rights (and responsibilities) of the child writer
April 19th, 2021
Writing with the family – sofa scribbling, duvet drafting & dinner-time dabbling! by Tobias Hayden
April 15th, 2021
*NEW* UKLA’s Teachers’ Writing Group
April 16th, 2021
The Writing For Pleasure Centre’s ‘We Can Make Books Too’ Project
April 15th, 2021
Writing is one of the best ways to teach reading…
April 14th, 2021
NAAE Writing For Pleasure event on the 24th of April.
April 1st, 2021
The Writing For Pleasure Centre’s Children As Writers survey
March 11th, 2021
Our second teachers’ writing group by Sam Creighton
March 11th, 2021
Developing a sincere writing curriculum in KS1
February 20th, 2021
Teaching grammar: our viewpoint
February 9th, 2021
Our first teachers’ writing group by Sam Creighton
February 9th, 2021
Focus on writing for pleasure in primary schools National Education Union
February 3rd, 2021
“Anyone wanna collab?” Personal writing projects go online!
January 26th, 2021
Reflections on the Writing For Pleasure approach during Lockdown by Benjamin Harris
January 26th, 2021
Writing with some pupils in my Year One class
January 25th, 2021
A love letter to genre teaching
January 18th, 2021
That’s the way I work: One child’s experience of a Writing For Pleasure pedagogy
December 23rd, 2020
Closing out the year by giving the children a writer’s notebook
December 9th, 2020
Writing and using a mentor text: Example of practice
December 8th, 2020
Teachers’ Institute with The UKLA – Sunday 31st January
December 6th, 2020
Issues with the book planning approach and how they can be addressed
November 29th, 2020
Why effective writing instruction requires a writer-teacher
November 10th, 2020
They won’t have anything to write about: The dangers of believing children are ‘culturally deprived’
November 4th, 2020
What makes children want to write
October 22nd, 2020
What the research says: the most effective ways to improve children’s writing
October 21st, 2020
A guide to reading with children
October 12th, 2020
How writing approaches built on using stimuli are damaging children’s writing development
October 3rd, 2020
Join our virtual poetry retreat (this time, for adults) this half-term
September 20th, 2020
The DfE and Writing For Pleasure: What happened and what should happen next?
September 10th, 2020
Writing tests are not the answer you are looking for
August 17th, 2020
What if almost everything we thought about the teaching of writing was wrong?
July 15th, 2020
Supporting children writing at home
May 22nd, 2020
The most common misconceptions about ‘Writing For Pleasure’ debunked
May 18th, 2020