This free handbook addresses some of the major aspects of teaching writing. The aim is to create an invaluable reference guide for all teachers. We hope to update this handbook every year to take account of the latest research and thinking. We would like this handbook to support teachers in developing sound subject knowledge and exceptional classroom practice. We have tried to make the research as accessible as possible. The handbook includes:
- Over 600 research entries covering the major aspects of developing students as writers.
- Short abstracts and keyword tags to help teachers find the research they are looking for.
- An analysis of the analysis and what it is the best performing writing teachers do that makes the difference.
- A chapter dedicated to each of the 14 principles of world-class writing teaching.
- Research on the early teaching of writing including compositional development, phonics, encoding, spelling, letter formation and handwriting.
- Extended entries on major topics such as speaking and listening, reading/writing connection, multilingualism, special educational needs and disabilities, and social and emotional disorders.
- Focused chapters on the affective needs of student writers, including: self-efficacy (confidence), self-regulation (competence and independence), agency, motivation and writer-identity.
- Essential literature and suggested reading offered at the end of each chapter.
This handbook is a useful resource for anyone interested in developing world-class writing teaching. Teachers should find what is shared within these pages utterly interesting, informed and helpful.
We have done our best with this third edition to cover many aspects of writing teaching in the best way we can. We have provided a variety of research, from different disciplines, and from a variety of perspectives. We’ve tried to provide a balance between the very latest emerging research and classic studies which contain profound insights and have stood the test of time. If you think some important research entries are missing, then please contact us. You can contact us through our website at: http://www.writing4pleasure.com/contact
New to this third edition:
- A *NEW* chapter on Children’s views on writing, being writers and writing teaching.
- New research studies related to teachers’ perspectives on writing teaching and initial teacher education.
- A significant number of additional studies on the subject of writing motivation and writer-identity.
- Major additions to the special educational needs chapter.
- New studies on the subject of teaching children to plan and revise their compositions.
- Studies on the importance of having a reassuringly consistent approach to teaching writing in the early years, primary, and in secondary schools.
- Additional papers on the importance of establishing children’s transcriptional skills.
- Substantial new studies on pursuing purposeful and authentic class writing projects.
- A new section devoted to research on children writing at home
- New research on grammar teaching, teaching at the sentence-level, and developing children’s vocabulary in the context of the writing classroom.
- Further additions to verbal feedback and delivering pupil-conferencing.
- Significant new studies and literature added to the reading/writing connection chapter.