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The Talk for Writing approach enables children to read and write independently for a variety of audiences and purposes within different subjects. A key feature is that children internalise the language structures needed to write through ‘talking the text’, as well as close reading. The approach moves from dependence towards independence, with the teacher using shared and guided teaching to develop the ability in children to write creatively and powerfully.

The key phases of the Talk for Writing process, enable children to imitate orally the language they need for a particular topic, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.

The key stages are imitation, innovation (magpie-ing) and invention.

This scaffold helps writers understand the purpose, language and structure of the writing task ahead adn can be seen at different levels across the school.

Independent writing tasks allow the writers to explore, experiment and showcase their development as an author.

An independent task can be any genre and written either as a cold task (new piece of writing before teaching has taken place) or at the end of a unit of work.

Teachers may choose use a piece of music, and extract from a book, letter, film or documentary clip to act as a stimulus. Children will be given a time to plan and think through their ideas before writing and editing and purple penning their work.

Children are expected to work independently and their work is used to assess alongside age related criteria.