Teaching for Mastery in Writing : A Strategy for Helping Children Get Good at Words / Mike Cain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cain, Mike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary).

English language.

Language arts (Elementary).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 122 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018]

Summary:

Teaching for Mastery in Writing provides a practical approach to developing mastery in writing which helps all primary children to develop their skills and inspires a love of writing. This innovative book follows an approach that integrates mastery into existing teaching sequences - an approach which aims to improve the writing ability of all children, not just the more able.Writing is a tough discipline for children in today's primary schools. The number of skills they are expected to learn is a source of amazement to many adults outside education. It is no easier to teach, not least because of the many and varied demands on schools, including the National Curriculum, SPaG tests, assessment frameworks and inspections. Now, more than ever, it is crucial that teachers focus on helping children become the most effective communicators they can be through the medium of writing.Throughout the book, Mike Cain promotes the importance of a classroom culture characterised by focused talk and reasoning, and provides lots of ideas for challenging children in their writing through the development of key learning dispositions and critical thinking skills.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Introduction: Mastery learning

A long-term aim for primary writers

Journey over destination

A checklist approach

F STEPS

Planning for mastery learning

The planning pyramid

How to use this book

1 Feedback

Focus on a goal

Setting relevant goals

Responding to pupils' efforts

Example goals

Bringing the 'me' into cognition

Formative assessment

Implications for the classroom

Divert time from other tasks

Feedback, not marking

Feedback before the writing process

Feedback during the writing process

Feedback after the writing process

Self- and peer-assessment

Self-assessment

Peer-assessment

Rising above the writing task

The helicopter task

Developing growth mindsets

A whole-school approach

Reflection points

2 Skills

A culture of consolidation

Learning to read write

Phonics

Most common words

Read, write link

The literacy legacy

Teaching grammar

Deeper learning through logical progression

The Steps in Learning for writing

3 Talk and thought

There's group work and there's group work

Why should children learn to collaborate?

Thinking through talk

Exploratory talk

Ground rules

Philosophy for children

Benefits of P4C

Drama into writing

What the research says

Seizing the moment to write

Clear thinking to clear writing

Internal dialogue

4 Engagement

The joy of learning

Create a safe haven

Use humour

Make it relevant

Get the challenge right

Novelty

Independent discovery learning

Implications for teaching writing

Choosing an appropriate text

Short and sweet

Topic as the context

Children's experiences.

Music into writing

5 Practice

Lessons from Mozart and Mo

Deliberate practice in the classroom

From unconscious incompetence

Conscious incompetence

Conscious competence

Unconscious competence

Practising phonics

Practising spelling

In practice

Spelling strategies

Grammar for writing

Choices and possibilities

Using shared writing

Using guided writing

Differentiation

ACE IT!

Practise across the curriculum

6 Sequence

Overview of a unit of work

Skills

Writing outcomes

Talk and thought

Writing forms

Long-term planning

The Explore phase

The Practise phase

Feedback and engagement

The Compose phase

Planning for writing

Destination writing

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Helicopter task pro-forma

Appendix 2 Steps in Learning documents

Appendix 3 Key words and prompts using Bloom's taxonomy

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472949882

1472949889

9781472949868

1472949862

OCLC:

1139918168