1. Talk For Writing at Woburn Lower School

2. When, Why, What? To write it you must first be able to speak it!
Introduced in September 2016
Lots of good practice teaching writing at Woburn but it was becoming stale and needed a fresh approach
Talk for Writing is a concept introduced by Pie Corbett and is based on the principles of how children learn
To write it you must first be able to speak it!

3. Imitation Innovation Independence
The main principles
Based on good quality texts
Covers different genre types (fiction, instructions, non chronological reports, recounts, persuasive writing etc)
Can be used across the curriculum
Start with what do we already know – Cold Write
What has this told us? What do we need to learn?
Learn a piece of text, absorb the language
Build up to the final, improved piece of writing – Hot Write
Imitation Innovation Independence

4. How it works at Woburn Not a scheme – a way or working
Adapted to suit our needs e.g. less time learning text
Adapted by key stage
Follows ideas and principles laid out in previous slide
One cold write and one hot write per half term
Lots of joint writing
Grammar is reinforced and taught through this process
Phonics and spelling are still taught discretely
Texts used usually relate to topics

5. Stages of writing: Boxed up plan
Original Text annotated with genre characteristics
Joint writing
Text map to help learn the text

6. Outcomes - Higher quality evidence for assessment and moderation
Pupils - Increased confidence with vocabulary and genre types
Teachers – Clearer idea of what to teach
Impact
Well above national average writing results at KS1 and Year 4. Fulbrook say our writing is the best amongst the local lower schools!

7. Any questions?