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