Write It Level It Teach It

Save time and boost learning with your own model texts

Matt Beighton

• Publisher: Corwin UK
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781529781533, 9781529781540
• eBook ISBN: 9781529785517
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Stop spending hours searching for, adapting and improving model texts for use in your classroom teaching.  There is a way to save time and get properly levelled and relevant texts for your teaching – write your own.

In Write It. Level It. Teach It., Matt Beighton shows you how and why writing your own model texts for teaching is so much better.  Based on his experiences as a classroom teacher and having written nearly 1,000 comprehension texts for the Literacy Shed, Matt demonstrates how to do this quickly and effectively. 
* Includes writing templates for busy teachers.  
* Explores why correctly levelled texts matter.
* Boosts learning and engagement.
* Saves time and effort through collecting and re-using texts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Foreword by Rob Smith
• Introduction: About this book
• Part 1 Write it: What are model texts and where might you use them?
• 1 Opportunities to create content
• 2 Is teacher-created content that important?
• 3 Linking your content with the end of Key Stage expectations
• 4 The impact of teacher-created content on peer- and self-assessment
• 5 The impact on behaviour and engagement
• 6 What impact can published books have?
• Part 2 Level it: What does levelling your content look like?
• 7 What is a reading level assessment?
• 8 How often should you be checking?
• 9 Why might content be out of range?
• 10 How to increase the reading level
• 11 How to reduce the reading level
• Part 3 Teach it: What can you do to save time and increase the effectiveness of your content?
• 12 The importance of balance and saving time
• 13 Purpose, purpose, purpose
• 14 Linking content to a topic and why you might want to reconsider
• 15 Recycling - not just for your rubbish
• 16 The text vault concept
• 17 Building your own text vault
• 18 Serialisation and its impact
• 19 The narrative replacement concept
• 20 Narrative replacement in your class
• 21 Summary
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• References
• Index