Pie Corbett
Quick fire activities for primary and secondary level
Pie Corbett
Pie Corbett, author of many books promoting creative approaches in the classroom, including Jumpstart! : Literacy, uses games and quick-fire activities to ‘jumpstart’ writing, suitable for primary and secondary pupils.
Pie’s games aim to establish a creative mood, help children generate ideas, create and control sentences as well as playful writing and reading ideas. In doing so helping children to:
- become more confident in themselves as writers and readers
- develop a creative mood
- not become daunted by the size of the task
- practise skills so that they become automatic and embedded
- gain a sense of accomplishment
- imitate the practice of active writers and readers.
“In my first term of teaching year 3s, I discovered the simple idea of sentence games. I used to write sentences up on the board for children to imitate, change, or improve. Recently, I read in Ted Hughes ‘Letters’ that he used the same sort of approach when working in a secondary school - except he used sentences by Swift.”
