Writing across the curriculum: frames to support learning is one of our extremely popular publications. This is an opportunity for you to download pdfs as well as Word documents of individual frames for use in class.
Writing across the curriculum was originally produced as part of the EXEL (The Exeter Extending Literacy) project funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
For this project we worked with groups of teachers to explore ways of broadening and making more effective children’s reading and writing of information texts (Wray & Lewis, 1997; Lewis & Wray, 1996).
A major teaching strategy developed from this work was the use of writing frames to support and guide children’s non-fiction writing. These frames have been adopted enthusiastically by teachers in a wide range of situations. They have also been incorporated into the National Literacy Strategy as a core teaching strategy.
This publication sets out to:
- present some further ideas for ways of using writing frames.
- extend the idea of writing frames to a wider range of curriculum areas, including mathematics, science and technology, as well as to suggest ways of framing children’s writing of stories.
- explore problems which children may encounter when writing and describes how writing frames can provide solutions to these problems.
- offer blank templates which can be used in a range of subjects.