Closing the Writing Gap

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I am a blogger and the proud author of ‘Closing the Reading Gap’, ‘Closing the Writing Gap’, and ‘The Confident Teacher’. Alex Quigley's razor-sharp focus pinpoints the clear ways teachers can address and improve writing in the classroom. Freeing up the cognitive load could really help with the fluency of their writing, liberating them to be creative and relaxed. Shortened writing can go unstructured, so even the conscious crafting and modelling of sentences can prove uncommon. Using Real Writing means you can choose to focus on any writing objective from the National Curriculum.

Closing the Writing Gap: Alex Quigley: 9781000591385 Closing the Writing Gap: Alex Quigley: 9781000591385

But as a profession we must think harder about the value of teaching the nature of sentences, how to manipulate them and evaluate them in light of writing purposes and how to choose words confidently. Given writing is so central to school success, it has to be a priority for professional development.You may not be functionally illiterate by any measure, but you can still find this task tricky, just as pupils can find writing in the classroom difficult. That said, the practical strategies, the seven steps for improving writing, Quigley’s wealth of experience and his passion for seeing illiteracy become a thing of the past still ring in my ears. For the former child, this may not mean they have a limited vocabulary, more so that it is hard to retrieve words. Highly practical strategies and easy-to use classroom activities are included to help teachers seize opportunities across the curriculum every school day to teach the critical writing process.

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And yet, his earnest, tight-lettered handwriting could not mask his writing struggles, his misspellings, or his missteps. Once more, the issue rests with teacher knowledge and confidence in the teaching of grammar for writing. This article by Alex Quigley introduces 7 steps to improve children's writing that feature throughout his latest book Closing the Writing Gap. A student who struggles with sequencing however, may have all the information to hand but it has been thrown all over the floor, making it much harder to find. They say (or often blurt out) something brilliant and then it has faded away either naturally or because someone or something has disrupted the thought process.

Often children with the difficulties stated above can end up on the ‘bottom’ table, or tasks set may be fixed at a very low bar.

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The book is a rich source of directions for further reading and examples of strategies for teaching writing which will support teachers to reflect on what happens in their writing classrooms and to make enabling changes.When we have a close focus on the language of science, for example, we can then characterise the specialist writing moves to teach. Closing the Writing Gap is the perfect antidote to the problems surrounding writing in the classroom today. We are trying to embed our Literacy Policy and could really do with some input from someone like yourself!

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Closing the Writing Gap will guide teachers at every stage of their career and when used with Alex Quigley's much-loved books on Vocabulary and Reading gives school leaders evidence-based approaches to literacy that can be applied across a school or a group of schools. I can’t think of a text which better articulates the importance of writing, and then goes on to articulate how to put ambition into practice. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Closing the Writing Gap written by Alex Quigley which was published in May 16, 2022. Cyclone Amphan destroyed coastal areas with a storm surge of around sixteen feet, triggering widespread flooding.

It offers advice on reviewing children’s learning needs and provide necessary support, setting up after-school clubs, trying some accelerated learning techniques and more. But what is likely to be even more revolutionary in my classroom is the following chapter on sentence construction. As a result, low-lying areas have been left in swamp-like conditions, with houses flattened, power outages, and thousands of trees uprooted in the wake of the cyclone. As such, we’ve put together this collection of resources, worksheets, lesson ideas and more for you to help your class, whether you’re dealing with them online or back in school. Both erudite and accessible, it covers the vital ingredients of effective writing teaching – from the building blocks of the grammar to art of rhetoric and the pragmatics of the drafting and editing process.