How to Teach Writing Across the Curriculum: Ages 8-14

Now in an updated second edition How to Teach Writing Across the Curriculum: Ages 8-14 provides a range of practical suggestions for teaching non-fiction writing skills and linking them to children¿s learning across the curriculum. Emphasising creative approaches to teaching children¿s writing in diverse and innovative ways, it provides:

• information on the organisation and language features of the six main non-fiction text types (recount, report, instruction, explanation, persuasion and discussion)
• suggestions for the use of cross-curricular learning as a basis for writing
• planning frameworks for children to promote thinking skills
• advice on developing children¿s writing to help with organisational issues ¿ paragraphing and layout, and the key language features
• examples of non-fiction writing
• suggestions for talk for learning and talk for writing (including links to ''Speaking Frames''; also published by Routl