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Helping children to work effectively together in writing. Workshop 2. Introduction. Pupils benefit from working together around the processes of writing, but only if their collaboration is structured
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Helping children to work effectively together in writing Workshop 2
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