@PieCorbett
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Poet, storyteller and educational consultant.
Joined March 2009
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I'm posting a child's poem every day for a month. Number 7 is a double act; Elliot & Clare, yr 6. Writing about a selected image from a set of postcards of paintings. Dali and Edward Burra. Quality not quantity.
I'm posting a child's poem every day for a month. Number 7 is a double act; Elliot & Clare, yr 6. Writing about a selected image from a set of postcards of paintings. Dali and Edward Burra. Quality not quantity.
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Piers Torday was on Talk for Teachers, discussing how published authors actually think with @PieCorbett .
A great insight into how to approach the writing classroom.
🔊 "If you can imagine it, it does exist" 🔊
Find out why children need to be taught to think and behave like published authors in Episode 3 of Talk for Teachers with Pie Corbett, out now:
open.spotify.com/episode/71Q…
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🔊 "If you can imagine it, it does exist" 🔊
Find out why children need to be taught to think and behave like published authors in Episode 3 of Talk for Teachers with Pie Corbett, out now:
open.spotify.com/episode/71Q…
Why imagination matters. Piers Torday and myself nattering about the role of imagination.
🔊 "If you can imagine it, it does exist" 🔊
Find out why children need to be taught to think and behave like published authors in Episode 3 of Talk for Teachers with Pie Corbett, out now:
open.spotify.com/episode/71Q…
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Terrific book. Go for it.
shop.talk4writing.com/produc… free copy going if you like and retweet - ideal for ks2 national poetry day! I’ll choose in two weeks time the lucky winner. Thanks.
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.@PieCorbett's poetic games focus on word classes, are fun to play, and provide the dual purpose of deepening understanding about grammar, as well as using grammar to create… teachwire.net/teaching-resou…
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‘Tishani Doshi’s dextrous, vibrant and vital poems delight and shimmer.'
Huge congratulations to Tishani Doshi on being shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize for her fifth poetry collection Egrets, While War.
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shop.talk4writing.com/produc… free copy going if you like and retweet - ideal for ks2 national poetry day! I’ll choose in two weeks time the lucky winner. Thanks.
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This is an excellent read, not just for Scotland but for everyone.
Simon Lamb: Mat o'Shanter- Children's Poetry Review poetryroundabout.com/2026/09… via @lizpoet
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Out tomorrow! Order it today and it will be with you to keep you company over the weekend! Primary Art in Action is here very soon!
A great lesson plan in the hands of someone with weak subject knowledge and skill will fail the pupils - the same lesson in the hands of acknowledgeable, skilled teacher will likely succeed. Schemes can only get you so far...
Why many schemes don't seem to work.
@Talk4Writing helps teachers to know what and how to teach
I'm posting a child's poem every day for a month. Number 6 is by Victoria who was 7 yrs. Each child floated ink and pulled off a marbling print. What can they see?
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It is time to recognise that linguistics, on which hope has been pinned since the Haddow Reports of 1923-33,education-uk.org/articles/24… has proved to be a blind alley, with new terminology that has become an obstacle to learning. Labour and Cons govts both fell for this. scilt.org.uk/Library/Scottis…
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What a pleasure to work with the Principal (Gerard Barrett) and staff (including some of my recently graduated students) at St Mary's Star of the Sea PS in Belfast today. Such a positive and affirming experience!
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Primary Teachers: Here is a children's poetry survey which you may find useful for next week's National Poetry Day. brian-moses.blogspot.com/201… @PieCorbett
From an old notebook. ‘Experience generates writing. Technique shapes es it. Teaching is scaffolding … if it becomes a substitute for experience, the writing will be stilted and limited’ I think it’s a quote from Bill Laar.
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@PieCorbett and @shirleyclarke_ share ways to get your classroom culture right, ensuring wide pupil participation and improved outcomes
"We've talked a lot about this... a more dialogic approach... It's not a right or wrong - the teacher is trying to scaffold the thinking."
@PieCorbett & @shirleyclarke_ discuss a more dialogic approach & the importance of culture in the latest episode:
open.spotify.com/show/0348zk…