Plotting Effective Narrative Writing with 10-year-old Children: an action research study^[1]

Abstract

It is a recurring complaint that practitioner-focused action research is under-represented in the literature. This article is written as an accessible account of an action research collaboration aiming to improve learning outcomes. It reports a teacher's innovation in regard to children's narrative writing strategies and evaluates the responses of the children to the changed processes of learning, and their prior and subsequent written work. It offers one approach to research-based professional practice and reflects on the viability of such approaches.