Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing: Story Steps For 9-12 Year Olds

Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing: Story Steps for 9-12 Year Oldsis a practical and easy-to-use teacher resource helping children across a wide age and ability range to develop the skills necessary to write more effectively. Step-by-step instructions encourage children to tackle tasks of increasing difficulty while broadening their knowledge and experiences of fictional genres.

With chapters separated into distinct genres: ghost story, fantasy, science fiction, history, pirate story, thriller and Gothic horror, this book:

• Offers a summary at the start of each chapter to help teachers select the relevant activities.
• Covers multiple aspects of storytelling from narrative structure, plots, characters and settings to vocabulary, word choice, sentence structure and punctuation.
• Provides a cross referencing grid showing which aspects of writing appear in each chapter.
• Includes guidance notes, extension activities and general tips.

Adaptable to different teaching situations, this book offers the opportunity for teachers to work through the book genre by genre or take a ''skills route'' with different activities from different chapters to create their own programme of study. Fully illustrated and supporting the requirements of the National Curriculum,Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writingis a valuable aid for all Key Stage 2 teachers.