@TheWritingWeb

Writer-teacher supporting writing communities and providing bespoke CPD in schools. 🧡 #WritingRocks

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Joined February 2017
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#TheWritingWeb nurtures young people’s enjoyment in writing. It provides them space, support and time to write for their own audiences and purposes. This insightful blog post from @TeresaCremin highlights why. teachersaswriters.org/genera…
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Darrell Wakelam@DarrellWakelam13h
Here's a new Halloween project for you . . . Paper Plate Skulls . . . one plate, four skulls! I'll put this up on the website in the next couple of days with some clearer photos of the process. 😁💀💀💀 darrellwakelam.com
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This man just took the same plastic recorder that used to sound like a dying goose in elementary school and casually started shredding Sultans of Swing on it. Eyes half-closed, fully committed, fingers flying like he actually practiced this instead of just surviving Hot Cross Buns. Somewhere a music teacher is watching this and having an existential crisis. The recorder has seen things. It will never be the same.
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Jon Biddle@jonnybidOct 23
Earlier this week, we spent time talking as a class about how we choose what to read. The conversation was really insightful, with the importance of peer recommendation and representation coming through strongly.
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Handwritten Letter@letterappsoc17h
Happy #PostboxSaturday, fellow postbox spotters! Delighted to go on an actual Postman’s Path up in the Lake District as found in Alan Cleaver’s lovely book, The Postal Paths. It even included a trip on a narrow-gauge railway… 😁📮📗🥾🚂
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg197617h
Only a few lamp boxes ever had Post Office signs, and sadly none survive. But they were a sight to behold, weren't they! #PostboxSaturday
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Massive Victorian wall box on Platform Zero at Gravesend Railway Station. 💌 @letterappsoc
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@s4hvmOct 22
Saw this a few days ago and it’s put a worm in my brain. Can’t stop thinking about it.
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The DFE writing framework has a whole section on oral composition and the importance of talk before (and as a tool for) writing!
Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷@MichaelRosenYesOct 22
Replying to @MichaelRosenYes @oldandrewuk @pdread68 @nunez_cabeza @EdSacredProfane @Peterhardwick17
Then, when every child is in school, they are in a speaking, listening, reading, writing environment, whether oracy is taught or not. There's talk about writing and reading. Much of the writing arises out of talk and uses oral forms eg contractions, dialogue...
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Look at this-my work has come back into fashion! Of course, it never went out of fashion at all. Communication and language are central to everything we do in EY ! It’s almost like we know about child development @MichaelRosenYes !
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg1976Oct 20
You used to be able to buy a stamp at the post box! This large King George VI post box has a stamp vending machine attached, so you can't use not having a stamp as an excuse for posting that birthday card late! #letterboxstudygroup
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Ian Cushing@ian_cushingOct 15
schools giving increased attention to language sounds good but it comes with many risks - the most obvious being the further entrenchment of deficit thinking. me and @choudrey_s anticipate this and how to resist it in our linguistic justice oracy framework doi.org/10.1080/00131911.202…
Lucy Powell MP
@LucyMPowellOct 14
“With AI on the rise, we need to go harder on the skills that makes us human, like oracy. That ability to articulate yourself confidently is central to success in work and life, but for too long it’s been a marker of privilege. Now it will become the right of every child.” Read more 👇 thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Ian Cushing@ian_cushingJul 6
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… An oracy framework for England’s schools: linguistic justice edition Open access and out now in Educational Review
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Buitengebieden
@buitengebiedenOct 19
When you understand the assignment but do it wrong on purpose out of spite.. 😅
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I’m delighted to see people objecting to the idea of assessing and/or examining oracy. However, some of those people have no objection to examining reading and writing.
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Handwritten Letter@letterappsocOct 17
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what’s this then? Looks like #PostboxSaturday at Wookey Hole to me… 😄📮🚔🚨
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg1976Oct 17
The Penfold Postbox is an icon of our streets - so much so that replicas were made from the 1980s right through to the 2010s and put on our streets. This attractive green example bears a plaque commemorating its 2016 unveiling 10 years ago. #PostboxSaturday
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Handwritten Letter@letterappsocOct 17
Always time for a bit of letter sending and postbox spotting on a Saturday. Have a fab #PostboxSaturday everyone! ☺️📮⏱️🕰️⏰
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this hardworking trio: a pair of ERII pillars and an OG parcel box. They’re doing the heavy lifting for the former Gravesend General Post Office (1850), currently operating a skeleton service as a Customer Service Point. 💌 @letterappsoc
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Jon Biddle@jonnybidOct 16
All the Feelings in the Room by Diego Estebo is a brilliant book for introducing EYFS children to the language of feelings. The story takes place at Alma's party, when everyone who arrives is feeling different: excited, shy, proud, angry. It's perfect for developing empathy.
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