The analogy of the novice trying to work out how to cook a dish from looking at the finished product reminds me of children looking blankly at a modelled write when the can't write a sentence.
(this is primary) I *hope* that a big push on sentence level work (because, but, so, sentence combining, sentence models, etc) and shorter, much more focussed pieces is the way forward. Andrew Jennings has done some great work in this area (plus the Writing Revolution)
And a focus on making stories good rather than stories based on checklists of grammar to be used. Christopher Youles has done a great book on this.
And I *really* hope this works as we are moving in this direction.
Yes, absolutely": where do you even start? I find that what tends to happen is that models replace any original ideas children might have so that when do they do arrive at the ‘you do’ phase they end up just writing ropey version of the model they saw.
The analogy of the novice trying to work out how to cook a dish from looking at the finished product reminds me of children looking blankly at a modelled write when the can't write a sentence.
(this is primary) I *hope* that a big push on sentence level work (because, but, so, sentence combining, sentence models, etc) and shorter, much more focussed pieces is the way forward. Andrew Jennings has done some great work in this area (plus the Writing Revolution)
And a focus on making stories good rather than stories based on checklists of grammar to be used. Christopher Youles has done a great book on this.
And I *really* hope this works as we are moving in this direction.
Yes, absolutely": where do you even start? I find that what tends to happen is that models replace any original ideas children might have so that when do they do arrive at the ‘you do’ phase they end up just writing ropey version of the model they saw.