Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing: Story Steps for 9-12 Year O

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Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing is 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.

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Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing: Story Steps for 9-12 Year Olds is 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 Writing is a valuable aid for all Key Stage 2 teachers.

Author Biography

Steve Bowkett is a former teacher and author of numerous books for teachers. He visits schools to run creative writing workshops for children and works as an educational consultant specialising in the areas of thinking skills and problem solving, creativity and literacy. Tony Hitchman has over 35 years of experience teaching throughout the Primary age range in diverse schools culminating in 11 years as a primary school Head Teacher. In his spare time(!), he has written scripts for the comic publisher DC Thompson, contributed cartoons and comic strips to various small press publications, illustrated educational books and collaborated with Steve Bowkett on Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1: Writing a Ghost Story; Chapter 2: Writing a Fantasy Story; Chapter 3: Writing a Science Fiction Story; Chapter 4: Writing a History Story; Chapter 5: Writing a Pirate Story; Chapter 6: Writing a Thriller Story; Chapter 7: Writing a Gothic Horror Story; Chapter 8: General Tips When Teaching Writing; Story Steps Vocabulary; Story Steps Checklist; References and Resources

Details ISBN0367139952 Author Tony Hitchman Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 0367139952 ISBN-13 9780367139957 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Educational Consultant, UK Pages 214 DEWEY 372.623044 Publication Date 2019-07-19 Short Title Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing Language English UK Release Date 2019-07-19 AU Release Date 2019-07-19 NZ Release Date 2019-07-19 Illustrations 2 Tables, black and white; 77 Line drawings, black and white; 77 Illustrations, black and white Subtitle Story Steps for 9–12 Year Olds Alternative 9780367139940 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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