Pie Corbett's method revolves around 3 major teaching areas - Imitation, Innovation and Invention. Imitation involves listening, joining in and getting to know texts well and internalising text structures and sentence patterns. Innovation comes in the form of taking a well known text and using it as a basic structure but changing small elements of it (adapting and borrowing story structure and sentence patterns). Invention is making up new stories using the knowledge of the text structure and sentence patterns learned in the imitation and innovation stage. This seems fairly similar to elements of Accelerated Literacy.
As Imitation is the first part of the process I thought I would share some things I had learned about this part. It involves the students listening to a teacher reading or more importantly 'telling' a tale (or non-fiction text), then the students joining in on the retelling over and over - with the students eventually being able to recite the text to others in the imitation stage.
I have found some Imitation games that would be perfect for the introduction of a text and the familiarising of a text with students - and many of these games can be used with EAL/D students as fun activities that help them thing more deeply about a text and allow them to gain a better understanding of the concepts of a text. Click here to access these.