Beyond Early Writing

Teaching Writing in Primary Schools

David Waugh, Adam Bushnell, Sally Neaum

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040375877
• Topic: Education

This essential text for primary trainees and teachers examines the key skill of writing beyond the earliest school years. Teaching writing involves much more than simply teaching the mechanics of spelling, grammar and punctuation, important though these are. There are particular issues around writing in school, including the fact that children's writing consistently lags behind their reading in external tests such as SATs, boys' relative lack of success and teachers' lack of confidence in modelling writing. This book addresses these topics as well as focusing on other pertinent practice issues such as working with proficient writers, engaging disengaged writers and working with children who have EAL and SEN.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Meet the editors
• Meet the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Research-based approaches to teaching writing
• 2 Finding a written voice
• 3 A murder mystery
• 4 Writing and drama
• 5 Writing poetry
• 6 Non-fiction writing
• 7 Beyond text: using visual imagery and film to enhance children’s writing
• 8 Grammar and punctuation through writing
• 9 Handwriting: the mentality and physicality of longhand
• 10 Multimodal literacies can motivate boys to write
• 11 Writing with children who are dyslexic
• 12 Learning from pupils who have English as an additional language
• 13 Beyond pen and paper
• Conclusion
• Index