ABSTRACT
This chapter helps teachers deal with the typical questions that arise when teaching through the Real-World Writers approach. It gives advice on how to deal with the issues that can arise when using such a pedagogy. This includes how to manage child agency and pupil choice; pupil conferencing; the teaching of basic skills; timetabling; making time for daily writing; the teaching of literature and building a community of writers. The end of the chapter demolishes some of the most common misconceptions that can surround the teaching of writing. There is examination of commonly held assumptions, such as children disliking writing, children needing to attend to transcriptional accuracy as they write, needing to write large quantities, and the merging of revision and editing as a single process.
