The Enormous Turnip model text and story map for Talk For Writing

Talk for Writing Pie Corbett cards using hands for pupil to use.

Year 1 Talk for Writing literacy plan and resources to accompany.

Zog simple Story in widgit form Colourful semantic sentences Story text in simple form Zog word mat- key words

Inspired by Pie Corbett’s initiative and one of his recommended texts, this resource has over 30 slides. Story maps, worksheets, planning for 10 activities and display ideas all included. Original activities that include creating your own missing persons (meerkat) report, your very own travel identity card and much more. Planning which can be used over 2 or 3 weeks depending on the needs of your class. The portal helps develop a story recount and the pack includes opportunities to write non-fiction reports and letters. POWERPOINT, WORD and KEYNOTE formats. There are 10 activities designed to be completed over several weeks but please adapt time length to suit the needs of your class. I teach Spanish children so we sometimes take longer to complete one activity. LETTER WRITING- POSTCARD TEMPLATE REPORT WRITING WRITING A MOTTO FOR YOUR CLASS FACT FILE STORY MAPS TRAVEL ID CARD SUITCASE TEMPLATE PORTAL STORY INCLUDED PLANS FOR 10 ACTIVITIES

Do you do Talk for Writing in your school? Are you a Year 2 teacher? If the answer is yes, then look no further! I’m sharing 3 weeks worth of planning of a fiction unit for a warning talk based on Little Red Writing Hood. Yes you heard correct, 3 weeks of planning! This is the entire unit. There are several resources to go with the planning, all of which are editable to suit your class. This resource would provide a great chunk of your planning and ultimately save you lots of time. The planning is based on Pie Corbett’s text of Little Red Riding Hood.

Dogger by Shirley Highes is a classic tale loved by the classes I have taught it to. The reworked Talk For Writing text is approx. 170 words. I used it when teaching in our topic ‘All About Me’ as the children get to discuss their favourite toys and teddy bears. This text would also work with a topic on Teddy Bears and Toys. There is a 6 lesson plan for a short introduction to talk for writing in Year 1. The unit focuses on the immersion side of Talk for Writing and then there is one lesson for the children to have a go at innovating the story using post it notes and oral retelling. The reworked Dogger Talk for Writing text is also provided. These features are covered: -story opener -story language (who, unfortunately, but etc.) -time connectives The learning objectives are: -compose a sentence orally before writing it -say our sentence before writing -retell the story of Dogger -compose sentences orally (when innovating) The activities provided are mainly those for rotation. An activity with the teacher, the teaching assistant and independent activities that the children will get to do all of over 2 lessons. There are two whole class activities. There is also a picture of the story map I drew to support our learning. This will support you to draw your own story map which is really important when teaching in the Talk for Writing style.

Year 2 Talk for Writing literacy plan and resources to support Literacy plan that lasts about 4-5 weeks, book front cover with focus’ on

Whatever Next Story Map and Model Text suitable for Reception or Year 1

This weekly planning has ideas on what you could do if you are just started talk for write. It focuses on using the text Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle to get children and teachers familiar with the different aspects of T4W.

Condensed and rewritten for a Talk for Writing unit that linked to our topic about London.

Simple action cards for those following the Talk for Writing programme. Pie Corbett actions

This is a complete Talk for Writing (T4W) unit pack to support the teaching of Little Red Riding Hood. This is aimed at Year 2 but could be edited for other year groups. The pack includes: Unit Overview Unit Powerpoint Model Text Ready-made Story Maps Working Wall Resources Lesson Activities

A complete 3/4 week unit on persuasive letter writing using the Day The Crayons Quit as inspiration! A creative and engaging Talk For Writing unit that produces fantastic innovated letters as the end point! Includes planning lesson slides (Active Inspire and Powerpoint) model text and picture map, lesson resources and comprehension questions. Children will learn the features of persuasive writing, vocabulary for emotions, rhetorical questions, the effect of short sentences, apostrophes for contraction, connective sentence starters. They will then adapt the model text to write a letter from an alternative classroom object that has an issue with something! Enjoy!

Unit of work Three little pigs

**Talk for Writing story map and adapted text for the traditional tale, ‘Jack and Beanstalk’. ** The resource includes Imitation resources Hook ideas List of story genres + examples Introduction into fairytales with activities Imitation PPT including story maps Likes, dislikes, puzzles and pattens reading response PPT to support exploring and building narrative characters Unit focus: characterisation + activities Lesson ideas for the book ‘Inside the villians’ + ‘I am…’ poem Wanted poster description -Story structure - ‘S’ Planner template Vocabulary cards ready to print (includes key story language) Innovation resources Innovating the characters/settings through substitution Templates Story map with ‘post-it’ notes

This is my first unit of Talk 4 Writing that I have done from scratch and it worked really well with the children. I am new to T4W and this is not perfect but will be a great foundation for you - I have included absolutely everything I have. The story map is not here yet as I have left my camera at school - will add in September.

Many teachers love the Talk for Writing approach but do not find it easy to organise all of Pie’s brilliant ideas into a unit of work. It is a challenge! I have been following the TfW approach for many years, and I have spoken at a few of Pie’s national conferences. Over the years, I have organised Pie’s ideas into a three week planning grid. The planning frame attached is not supposed to be prescriptive; it is designed to ‘hold your hand’ while you put a unit together. It is invaluable for teachers new to this approach, but even old-timers like me find the prompts helpful. This planner has been taken on in many schools and you may adapt it for your own use. This work is designed to support teachers using the TfW approach.

I used this to prepare my students for a mock exam. I got students to plan and write their talk, then some to model their ideas on the IWB and as a class we gave feedback on structure and language.

These resources were part of a training session for secondary school students visiting primary schools in Ghana to teach English for a period of two weeks. The students were taught how to introduce a story by using Talk for Writing, a teaching style developed by Pie Corbett. The story of ‘The Wind and the Sun’ was used as an example during the training session with the intention that each group of students will choose a different story to adapt and teach in Ghana. The expectation was that the Ghanaian students could speak some English so a Talk for Writing approach could benefit them due to its visual and kinesthetic emphasis on storytelling. The method of Talk for Writing enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally before reading and analysing it. Resources available The Wind and the Sun story adapted for EAL primary school children Training Booklet with instructions and examples of weekly and daily planning A story map using pictograms A visual bank with the key vocabulary Masks of the main characters

List of advantages and disadvantages of using the internet Suitable for Higher/Ad Higher/A-level I often use it as a translation exercise