Fine Grains – The Writing Revolution lessons

Several weeks ago I wrote about the general lessons learnt by teachers at my school while implementing and teaching using the Hochman Method as described in The Writing Revolution (TWR). Afterwards, there was quite a lot of correspondence regarding some of the finer grained elements – What do the specific activities look like? What are

Perils of Genre

Knowledge of genre is an important aspect of reading and writing development. Knowing that texts can have different purposes, and therefore can have different structures according to genre, has been shown over decades to have a positive impact on student reading and writing skills. Decades of research tell us that there are significant vocabulary and syntactical