Talk for writing

what does this look like at Water Hall?

The starting text

• Texts should be 'nonsense' so that the children are free to innovate as they wish.
• Texts should be simple and the 'bare bones'. Imaginative vocabulary and sentence construction comes later, the purpose of learning the text is to understand the structure.

Learning the Text

• Pie Corbett forms the backbone of how we teach writing, you cannot begin to teach the text to the children without knowing the text first.
• Children need to learn the text and be word perfect before they move on to any imitation. Don't attempt to shared write until the children know the text - this is where you can work on sentence construction and exploring the text type whilst the children learn.

Learning the Text

• Actions should be used to support the learning of the text.
• Actions should be used for connectives and punctuation only. Occasional actions for repetetive elements may be added.
• Pie Corbett actions can be found in the Talk for Writing folder.

Once the children have learnt the text

you are ready to innovate!

substituting the text

• once you have box planned the text (again in brief key words and symbols) you are ready to shared write.
• This is where the text can be extended, upleveled and adapted to suit your learning.

• LIs need to focus on learning how to write not learning how to complete Pie Corbett. Refer to the NC and decide what the children will learn about writing while substituting. For example, 'to understand how to use speech marks correctly'

   

substituting the text

• First draft - children have an opportunity to write their first paragraph.

• Editing - children have an opportunity to edit that paragraph with the help of an editing toolbox

• Second draft - children re-write the same paragraph

• Close the gap marking - the second draft is pink & greened.