📑 Death by TEEL: Are formulas for writing harmful?
If your child is finding school writing boring, frustrating or demoralising, you may be interested to ask what role TEEL has to play. In current high stakes environments, in which tests such as NAPLAN have the power to distort and demean curriculum, the TEEL epidemic is doing untold damage to children’s capacity to express themselves.
Lucinda McKnight and Narelle Wood discuss the dangers of descriptive writing structures. This reminds me of John Warner’s book Why They Can’t Write.