Table of Contents

1. The big ideas 2. Principles and practices 3. Foundation Stage: ‘Tell me a story’ 4. Foundation Stage: Playing with role: ‘Little Boy Blue’ 5. Foundation Stage/Y1: Time for rhyme 6. Outside in, inside out, or reading and writing out and about: environmental print 7. Dance your way to a story 8. Reporting back: reading non-fiction and writing non-chronological reports 9. Shapely poems and calligrams: starting not from text, but from language and visual images 10. Dear Giant – Dear Jack: creating a sequence of letters 11. Cyclones! Information books on same or similar themes: literacy across the curriculum 12. Where did our writing come from? Exploring the writing process 13. Writing is not speech written down: spoken language and written language: a language-based unit 14. Whatever happened to Lucy Gray? Classic poetry 15. ‘We made the story!’ Making whole stories with underachieving, uninterested boys 16. Enjoying a good argument? Writing discursively

About the Author

Tony Martin, Chira Lovat and Glynis Purnell were formerly based at the Education Development Unit, University of Cumbria. Tony Martin is a literacy consultant who works in primary schools and classrooms developing high quality teaching of literacy.