Creating Curious Readers Book – Supporting Documents and Videos


Creating Curious Readers book has supporting video clips to illustrate all stages of the process.

Click into each chapter below to see the corresponding video clips.

There are also supporting documents linked below.



Supporting Videos


What is talk for writing?

What is Talk for Writing?

Talk for Writing is an engaging teaching framework developed by Pie Corbett, supported by Julia Strong. It is powerful because it is based on the principles of how children learn. It enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.