Understanding
the craft of the writer: non-fiction
Non-fiction
offers many opportunites for engaging young readers and writers,
and for making creative and enriching links across the curriculum.
This full day course for teachers of P6-S2 aims to deepen teacher
understandings of non-fiction and the ways in which non-fiction
reading and writing can be developed n the classroom.
It is important that we provide opportunities for children to read
as if they were the writers who created the text, and help them
to write with a view to the needs and enjoyment of the reader –
in other words understand the craft of the writer and explore the
close links between the two modes of reading and writing and understand
how they impinge upon each other. Such an approach helps to demystify
the difficult art of writing by making explicit the techniques used
by authors to engage and entertain the reader. In addition, by developing
teacher understanding of texts and how they work, children can be
enabled to harness the tools of the author’s trade to become
more confident readers and writers themselves.
This course unashamedly slows down the process of text creation,
allowing children to gain deeper insights into the process through
carefully structured teacher interventions and creative opportunities
to prepare for writing, leading to higher quality end products and
empowered, more confident writers.
Run in City of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow .
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