Improving nonfiction writing

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Improving non-fiction writing

• Gill MatthewsTools For A Backpack 2007
  ConferenceRearden EducationalDubai Knowledge
  VillageNovember 21 22, 2007

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How to improve childrens non-fiction writing

• Teachers subject knowledge
• Planning and teaching model
• Context and content

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Identifying and analysing text types
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Using Infoticons

• Visual prompts for structuring non-fiction
  writing
• Available January 08 from Philip Tacey

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Planning the big picture

• Coverage of text types across the school,
  across each year

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Context and content

• Links with other areas of the curriculum
• Using fiction
• Themed literacy