Talk for Writing in the Early Years: How to teach story and rhyme, involving families 2-5 years

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Talk for Writing in the Early Years: How to teach story and rhyme, involving families 2-5 years

Talk for Writing in the Early Years: How to teach story and rhyme, involving families 2-5 years

Authors: Pie Corbett and Julia Strong

Published: January 2016 Pages: 208

eISBN: 9780335263417 | ISBN: 9780335263400

Acknowledgements

Guided tour

Part 1: Developing the Talk for Writing approach

Chapter 1 The centrality of story and the origins of Talk for Writing

Chapter 2 Aladdin’s Cave: The ‘Talk for Writing and Learning’ classroom

Chapter 3 Telling your first story

Chapter 4 Imitation: Creating a bank of story ideas

Chapter 5 Imitation: Helping the children become storytellers

Chapter 6 Innovation

Chapter 7 Invention: Moving from imitation to independent invention

Chapter 8 Invention: Ideas for inventions and the movement from telling to writing

Part 2: Involving families

Chapter 9 Why involving parents matters

Chapter 10 The storytelling process as the key to family involvement

Appendix 1 Sentence, spelling and story games

Appendix 2 The early years story bank

Appendix 3 A dozen picture books ideal for retelling