Ross Young
@writingrocks.bsky.social
The #WritingForPleasure Centre | Literacy Lab - University of Edinburgh | Real-World Writers | Science Of Teaching Primary Writing | How To Teach Writing | #WritingRocks
Website: writing4pleasure.com
PhD Profile: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/the-writing
Website: writing4pleasure.com
PhD Profile: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/the-writing
Already seeing some ‘unintended consequences’ from the DfE’s Writing Framework.
Remember:
✍️ Dictation isn’t writing
✍️ Children in the EYFS and KS1 can write short whole texts and focus at the sentence-level
Remember:
✍️ Dictation isn’t writing
✍️ Children in the EYFS and KS1 can write short whole texts and focus at the sentence-level
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Already seeing some ‘unintended consequences’ from the DfE’s Writing Framework.
Remember:
✍️ Dictation isn’t writing
✍️ Children in the EYFS and KS1 can write short whole texts and focus at the sentence-level
Remember:
✍️ Dictation isn’t writing
✍️ Children in the EYFS and KS1 can write short whole texts and focus at the sentence-level
Can’t wait to see this magic happen with my little one! ❤️
July 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Can’t wait to see this magic happen with my little one! ❤️
A really excellent point @damsoned.bsky.social
We did provide the DfE with a variety of alternative models but no dice… 🤷♂️
We did provide the DfE with a variety of alternative models but no dice… 🤷♂️
July 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A really excellent point @damsoned.bsky.social
We did provide the DfE with a variety of alternative models but no dice… 🤷♂️
We did provide the DfE with a variety of alternative models but no dice… 🤷♂️
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✍️ A whole generation of children have been put on “writers’ welfare.”
What does that mean — and what can we do about it as teachers? 👇
writing4pleasure.com/2022/07/19/a...
✍️ A whole generation of children have been put on “writers’ welfare.”
What does that mean — and what can we do about it as teachers? 👇
writing4pleasure.com/2022/07/19/a...
May 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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✍️ A whole generation of children have been put on “writers’ welfare.”
What does that mean — and what can we do about it as teachers? 👇
writing4pleasure.com/2022/07/19/a...
✍️ A whole generation of children have been put on “writers’ welfare.”
What does that mean — and what can we do about it as teachers? 👇
writing4pleasure.com/2022/07/19/a...
“We need to be greedily interested in the interplay between the cognitive, linguistic, behavioural, social, environmental, and cultural elements involved in learning to become a writer. It’s troubling whenever writing is described from a purely cognitive or a purely sociocultural perspective…”
April 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“We need to be greedily interested in the interplay between the cognitive, linguistic, behavioural, social, environmental, and cultural elements involved in learning to become a writer. It’s troubling whenever writing is described from a purely cognitive or a purely sociocultural perspective…”
“We’ve written this book in response to our dissatisfaction with the often incomplete discussions that are had around the teaching of writing. We cannot afford to take a narrow view that writing is just an activity of the mind and a formal system of rules and conventions to be learnt…”
April 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“We’ve written this book in response to our dissatisfaction with the often incomplete discussions that are had around the teaching of writing. We cannot afford to take a narrow view that writing is just an activity of the mind and a formal system of rules and conventions to be learnt…”
CS Lewis’s letter to young writers:
March 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
CS Lewis’s letter to young writers:
I can see you love comics. This is a perfect place to start your writing journey.
I can recommend getting a second-hand copy of this and start by making wee picturebooks. It’s a great introduction into writing. Let me know how you get on ❤️👇
I can recommend getting a second-hand copy of this and start by making wee picturebooks. It’s a great introduction into writing. Let me know how you get on ❤️👇
November 13, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I can see you love comics. This is a perfect place to start your writing journey.
I can recommend getting a second-hand copy of this and start by making wee picturebooks. It’s a great introduction into writing. Let me know how you get on ❤️👇
I can recommend getting a second-hand copy of this and start by making wee picturebooks. It’s a great introduction into writing. Let me know how you get on ❤️👇