Six teachers’ perspectives on writing development in the subject Swedish, in year 1-3

We have, based on recent studies, observed that pupil’s writing has deteriorated and their texts are often very similar to each other due to similar instructions. The purpose of this study is to understand how teachers in Swedish schools work with pupil’s writing development and if they use any kind of formative forms of expression in the process of becoming a successful writer. The study is based on three theories: a sociocultural perspective, literacy and multimodal teaching. This study is based on interviews with six teachers and focuses on their perspective on how they work with pupil’s writing development. The results of the study shows that teachers use variable ways of teaching, including formative forms and expressions, in order to reach out to the individual pupil and enhance their writing skills. Teachers point out that the use of different tactics, to be able to give the pupils an all-around preceptive, is still needed. Formative forms of expression motivate and extend pupil’s writing skills. When pupil’s individually write stories after dramatizing them together, their stories get a more detailed and expressive description than before because they have experienced the story with their bodies and minds in a different way than they normally do.