Scaffolding students to develop ideas for creative non-ficiton
In the English classroom, we tend to prioritise fiction – either reading it or analysing and writing about it. But this sort of writing represents only a fraction of the texts that we, and our students, are exposed to in the ‘real world’. Biographies, memoirs, recounts, podcasts, ads, documentaries, articles, opinion pieces, reviews, blogs, pamphlets,…