Catherine Gilliland Literacy Webinars Suite Webinar #6 - The Six Writing Genres of the Primary Language Curriculum Webinar

This webinar series is a collaboration between ESCI Region 3 Education Centres, Kilkenny Education Centre, Waterford Teachers' Centre and Wexford Education Support Centre.

In this webinar, participants will explore the strategies that can be incorporated into classroom practice to develop children’s exposure to the genres and the use of modelled and guided writing to develop competence in writing. This webinar comes with a resource pack.

Learning Outcomes

• Participants will develop their understanding of the unique and generic features of each genre, and
• Participants will engage in modelled instruction of a picture book in the teaching of persuasive writing.

Catherine Gilliland

Catherine Gilliland is an experienced Literacy specialist with numerous publications. Her work has taken her across Europe and she was a speaker at The World Literacy Summit in 2020. Her talent for storytelling makes her webinars engaging and very popular with teachers.