The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades

The Writing Revolution is exactly as the title describes, a book that supports teachers to fundamentally change how they think about teaching writing for the better. Talking the reader through how to break the writing process down into steps, starting with sentence-level activities and building strategies whilst learning content at the same time, this book offers practical advice and examples throughout for all teachers. It has had a huge positive impact on our teaching as well as the teaching of many of our colleagues and friends in education, we highly recommend it. Dave Tushingham and Rhiannon Rainbow- Authors of The Edu-Book Club

Despite teaching and leading literacy over several settings for seven years, this book has truly revolutionised how I teach and lead writing across the curriculum. Ideal for teachers in a KS2 setting, and useful for those in KS3. The book provides the practical implementation of the system, whilst at the same time provides clarity on the theory.The drills and approaches are straightforward, simple, and most importantly, very effective. In only several months it has led me to overhaul the approach at my school to sentences, paragraphs and complete texts.Read it and implement as much of this as you wish. Results will not be long in coming.

Excellent book that had all my needs.

Wish i had found this book years ago. Am home educating a dyslexia child with autism and this book is the most useful, comprehensive programme to help her learn to write i have ever dreamed of finding. She is 14, but now i feel i can really help her after 7 years of trying! Thank you!

This book challenged my thoughts on how to teach writing at the Primary stages. I wish I had read about "The Hochman Method", now known as The Writing Revolution years ago.

Excellent idea, most of it not very relevant to KS1 but enough to get you thinking about writing in a new way.

I’m only halfway through the book, but had to write this review. This book is an exceptional guide for teachers. Very useful and effective!

Great book

Developing literacy while covering course content? Tick! Readable and clear? Tick! Comes with helpful extra online materials at no extra cost? Tick! Even though this is a US book, it is still highly applicable in an Australian teaching environment. I would recommend it to teachers of any subject on the Australian curriculum, particularly in secondary education (my area), but I know primary teachers would also find this helpful, too. Highly recommended.

I found The Writing Revolution while searching for “content area writing” and “writing across the curriculum” resources to use in homeschooling my daughter. While some materials that are written for the classroom are hard to put into practice in a homeschooling situation, such is not the case with this book. Rather, having tried several homeschool writing curricula, and not having found anything that really “clicked” for us, I feel like I have found what I have been looking for in this book. Some of the things that this book advocates and that work well in the homeschool setting are: starting with what the student is able to do, not what they “should” be able to do according to age or grade level; using the student’s work to inform instruction; using a “gradual release of responsibility” model (I don’t remember this exact term being used in the book, but it addresses starting with modeling, then doing activities together, and gradually moving towards students being able to do things independently); and writing in the content areas to reinforce what is being learned in subject areas such as history and science, rather than having a separate writing curriculum that is unrelated to what is being studied in other areas.In some ways, I think this method would be easier to apply in the homeschool than the classroom, because it is easier to differentiate instruction when you are working with fewer students, who are usually different ages, and homeschooling parents are more likely to be teaching multiple subjects to their children, so integrating writing instruction with content area learning makes sense and is easier to implement than in a school setting where, at least at the secondary level, you are more likely to have different teachers for different subjects. The only drawback I can see in a homeschool setting is that more teacher preparation is required compared to other homeschool writing curricula, because the lessons are meant to be integrated into the content areas, and are not all pre-planned. This might make it difficult for a homeschooling parent who is juggling multiple children of various ages, especially if they have babies and toddlers in the mix (I only have two kids, ages 12 and 16, and am only homeschooling my 12 year old). But the benefit of this method is that it will help you to provide a very individualized writing program that can be easily adapted to your child’s needs and abilities.

Not impressed

Great book

Lo mejor del libro es la claridad con la que se explica el método. Además, contiene muchos ejemplos que facilitan la aplicación para diferentes niveles.