Literacy Resources

We have now finished our talk for writing conferences.  We had some fantastic comments and people have been emailing us having gone back into the classroom to try things out.

I am amazed at the way the children in my class have taken to the ‘talk the text’ part of the sequence for non-fiction (recount). They really seem to enjoy it and as you said they had the whole text down pat in just 3 days. We have begun to create their own texts using HMSS and it is amazing how great their ideas sound based loosely on the structure of the original text. I stood back today and listened to them in pairs as the whole class worked on the first bit of their own recount, talking it to their partners. It was such a buzz to see them doing the learning and being so creative without me having to jaw jaw from the front all the time. It was great.  We still need to get to grips with the finer details of a sequence like this but I am completely sold on it (which I didn’t really expect to be). I think they are making such fast progress, but lots of it comes from them with me facilitating, rather than being the fount of all wisdom. It is good to see very average children really discussing in a quality way to improve each others ideas and to come up with quality

What is talk for writing? from joy simpson on Vimeo.

We have posted all of our talk for writing resources on our website.  Beware the retelling of Mr Gumpy!  We also have talk for writing resources here.  What have you tried?