Helping children to work effectively together in writing

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Helping children to work effectively together
in writing

• Workshop 2

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Introduction

• Pupils benefit from working together around the
  processes of writing, but only if their
  collaboration is structured
• This summary provides evidence from a small-scale
  study of one particular effective approach to
  structured collaborative working
• It involved training pupils to be peer tutors (in
  this case cross-age tutors, although peer
  tutoring also works with children of the same
  age)
• Medcalf, J., Glynn, T., Moore, D. (2004) Peer
  tutoring in writing a school systems approach.
  Educational psychology in practice 20 (2)
  pp.157-178