Writing Under Control: Teaching Writing in the Primary School (Roehampton Student Texts)

I'm nearing the end of a part time PGCE in primary Ed. 'Writing underControl' was well structured and useful while assignment writing. Thefirst chapter gives a brief overview of the development of teaching fromVictorian to present day,via the lifestory of a teacher.Contributors tothe book write about transcriptional and compositional strands, ESL,genretheory and other controversial new theories to literature Assessment ofwriting, and the last chapter titled 'meeting individual needs'givesexcellent examples of different children such as'those who write willinglybut with many errors', and 'those who write at length but with nocomittment'. Altogether this has been the most informative andstraighforward books for use on my course and I would also recommend 'Reading under Control'.

A really handy book to have around when either working on assignments or in the classroom. Some helpful ideas with constructive and realistic advice.