ABSTRACT
Current theories and practices of teaching writing place a great deal of emphasis upon the importance of providing an appropriate and enabling context for children’s writing. Teachers are urged to become literate models for their pupils and to create a print rich classroom environment which replicates as closely as possible the literate environment of the real world. The National Writing Project has encouraged many teachers to develop an interest in the processes of writing and a key factor in this has been the provision of authentic purposes and audiences for children’s work. The Project has also given teachers a set of stimulus points from which to consider the ways in which they might teach writing and the classroom conditions they might try to create. The National Curriculum has set out a range of skills which children should employ and specified that these should be used in a range of contexts.
