ABSTRACT
This chapter reintroduces the rationale for undertaking genre teaching weeks. It explains how genre can be effectively taught and how attention must be paid to discussion about purpose, audience, field, tenor and modality. It discusses how, once experienced enough, children should be encouraged to manipulate, hybrid and subvert the genres they have learnt about. It considers the strengths and weaknesses of the supplied planning grids before finally discussing the connections between effective genre teaching and planning class writing projects. For example, as children’s genre knowledge increases, other nuances and sub-genres are introduced. The idea is that children use what they have learnt in previous projects by using a mastery through repeated practice approach. It gives specific guidance on what teachers should be seeing in terms of writing development within the most popular genres and gives advice on how to extend children’s thinking and progress over time.
