2) Talk For Writing: What's The Theory? What's The Theory? What's The Theory?
This document discusses the principles of "Talk for Writing". It provides evidence that reading aloud, oral rehearsal of writing, and talking about language choices can positively impact children's writing abilities. Specifically:
1) Reading aloud helps children improve their writing by modeling sentences, structure, and style.
2) Oral rehearsal of writing helps children learn the difference between spoken and written language.
3) Studies found that talking about language choices led to a 20% improvement in children's writing.
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2) Talk For Writing: What's The Theory? What's The Theory? What's The Theory?
This document discusses the principles of "Talk for Writing". It provides evidence that reading aloud, oral rehearsal of writing, and talking about language choices can positively impact children's writing abilities. Specifically:
1) Reading aloud helps children improve their writing by modeling sentences, structure, and style.
2) Oral rehearsal of writing helps children learn the difference between spoken and written language.
3) Studies found that talking about language choices led to a 20% improvement in children's writing.
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Wordsmith Principles
2) Talk for Writing
What’s the theory? What’s the theory? What’s the theory?
Reading aloud is a great way Oral rehearsal (saying what Talking about language choices to model good practice for you’re going to write before you has been shown to have a children. write it) helps children develop positive impact on children’s a sense of what a sentence is writing. Reading aloud is also really and, later, to hear what more useful for helping children complex sentences sound like. It improve their work. helps them hear the difference between the way we talk and the way we write.
What’s the research? What’s the research? What’s the research?
“Reading aloud and “…good writing requires not In the University of Exeter rereading were features of only production of text, but also project, “there was a real effective classrooms and helped shaping of text. …this study emphasis on talking about children to take on the makes it clear that one key writing, especially the language language and style of texts. element in learning to write with choices children were making… ‘The teachers’ skilful reading accomplishment is, in part at The group following this aloud made these authors’ least, learning how not to write approach improved by 20%” voices resonate in the the way you talk…” (Debra Myhill, University of classrooms” Talking to writing: Linguistic Exeter, May 2012). The Reader in the Writer (CLPE, development in writing (Debra Myra Barrs 1998-99) Myhill, 2009 BJEP monograph)
How Wordsmith helps How Wordsmith helps How Wordsmith helps
Each unit of work contains plen- Throughout the lesson plans, ‘Grammar blasts’ help children ty of reading aloud to support you’ll see plenty of references to learn the grammar terms. children’s comprehension when to encouraging oral rehearsal Children comment on at the reading a shared book. when children are writing their language choices in the whole Suggestions and prompts are own pieces. texts they read. given for children and teachers Children talk about on their own reading their own work aloud, language choices when writing. too.