Writing to Learn

Writing To Learn Across The Curriculum (updated Oct 21)

This highly practical, evidence-based course will help you to teach your students to write effectively across the curriculum and, in doing so, help them to develop a deep understanding of the topics they write about.

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If you ask Google, 'Hey Google, what are the purposes for writing?', you will get the usual: to inform, to entertain, to persuade, etc. However, one of the prime purposes for writing across the curriculum is to learn the curriculum. This course looks at ways you can learn geography better by writing about it; ways you can learn history, DT, art, maths, science, and more by writing about them. This involves the crafting of 'Golden Sentences' and 'Golden paragraphs' that accurately sum up learning and give clear reinforcement to students about the key take-aways from lessons.

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The principles and importance of writing to learn
How writing improves students' reading, speaking and thinking
The importance of deliberate, sequenced writing practice across the curriculum
Why sentence-level writing is much more effective than genre-level writing across the curriculum
How to use curriculum content to drive writing activities
How to use grammar and punctuation to help deepen curriculum knowledge
Progression from sentences to expanded elaboration using curriculum content
How to model effective sentence expansion using curriculum content
The power of the basic conjunctions: because, but and so.

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Gill Day

Thank you. That was very interesting and thought-provoking. I am already rethinking my history and geography lessons and trying out some of the things you ...

Thank you. That was very interesting and thought-provoking. I am already rethinking my history and geography lessons and trying out some of the things you discussed.

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Jan Lawson

I found the Writing to learn course very informative and well constructed. Thank you Chris Quigley for such an informative insight.

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Siobhan Eastwood

Interesting and reassuring that this is the route that we have started down ourselves as a school. I will remain interested to see how some of those ideas br...

Interesting and reassuring that this is the route that we have started down ourselves as a school. I will remain interested to see how some of those ideas break down and develop into a more practically fluid form later on... I realise this is the draft of the ideas at present. As with all your work Chris - this always leads to some great ideas for us to take forward. Thanks again. Siobhan Eastwood (St John's Primary School, Ipswich)

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