Writing Standards – Alan Peat Ltd

Raising Writing Standards by Stealing

For more than two decades I have been a keen advocate of ‘Steal and Adapt’ (Transformational Response) as a key factor in school writing development programs. A recent visit to the major David Bowie exhibition at the V&A (23 March-11 August 2013) has finally prompted me to briefly collect my thoughts on this subject in […]

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Alan Peat in Creative Writing, Writing Standards

Some interesting sentence work from Crab Lane!

“At Crab Lane Primary School, Manchester, we are on an exciting journey to further improve our writing curriculum. With successful implementation of whole-school approaches to literacy planning, coverage and talk for writing, we reached a point where our focus needed to switch to consistent language and structure around text types and a progressive approach to […]

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Alan Peat in Creative Writing, Exciting Sentences, Writing Standards