Highly Anticipated Release
FROM DR IAN HUNTER
"A mightily impressive book from one of the world's luminaries in the teaching of writing, written so clearly that it is hard to put down."
– Richard Andrews, Emeritus Professor in Language Education, University of Edinburgh
Dr Ian Hunter
Best-selling author Innovator Award-winning academic
Why do we find writing difficult?
Why are so many of our schools failing at teaching writing?
Why are boys so far behind girls in writing and can that be turned around?
How do you accelerate thinking and creativity through writing?
When a person misses out on foundational writing development, a much larger hole is left in their lives than mere lack of expressiveness. Life choices are impeded. The ability to enjoy career success is hindered, as well as an individual's right to self-actualise.
All of this is avoidable.
Teach them to write
In Teach Them to Write, award-winning educator
Dr Ian Hunter takes a deep dive into the heart of the writing challenge. Synthesising 150 years of research, this book explains how we can build a writing system—informed by historical and educational best practice—that can radically change writing outcomes for the better. The craft of writing is not a deep mystery. How to teach writing can be quantified, measured, taught—systematised across a school, across the learning journey of a student, across an entire education system.
What to expect
This ground-breaking book challenges what we think about writing and delivers a powerful road map for change. You will learn:
- How to lift your own writing capabilities
- The four classic myths about writing
- How writing and thinking are linked and how to harness this power
- Why writing mastery (not proficiency) must be the aim of education systems
- How to make boys better writers, fast
- How writing accelerates 21st-century skills
- The skill of expansion—the missing link in primary writing education
- The six big writing goals every school should pursue
- A complete K–12 writing scope and sequence
Dr Ian Hunter
Dr IAN HUNTER is a bestselling author and founder of the company Writer's Toolbox. After 20 years as a university professor, Dr Hunter embarked on a 15- year pilgrimage to help schools around the world fix the writing problem. This book is the outcome—how you see writing will never be the same.
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