New regime of test requirements risks ‘alienating, confusing and demoralising children’
Children’s authors are warning that the “restrictive” way children in England are being taught writing in school will affect the next generation of novelists, biographers and poets.
In a statement released by members of the Society of Authors who write for children and for education, they condemn current government policy on the teaching of writing and grammar. They say the government has intervened too far and that “the resultant teaching no longer reflects what writing really does”.
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