How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 by Pie Corbett (English) Paperback Boo

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A practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children's story-writing. It presents a series of essential writing workshops full of creative ideas and fun activities.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

A practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. These are followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet running workshops in schools, which focus on growing the roots of story writing through story-telling and reading, and begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama, role-play and art, and a few model stories are provided for story-telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories, based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children, and demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic, creative and imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework. Workshops include: the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug, stuff and nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; and cooking the soup stories.

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How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet running workshops in schools. These workshops focus on growing the roots of story writing through story telling and reading, and begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama, role-play and art, and a few model stories are provided for story telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories, based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children, and demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic, creative and imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework. Workshops include the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug, stuff and nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; and cooking the story soup.

Author Biography

Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He has worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Capturing stories – the story mountain Chapter 3 Imitation – retelling well-known tales Chapter 4 Innovation – altering well-known tales Chapter 5 Invention – making up your own tale Chapter 6 Characterisation Chapter 7 Creating settings Chapter 8 Skilful sections Chapter 9 All types of story Chapter 10 Writing style

Details ISBN1853469165 Author Pie Corbett Short Title HT TEACH STORY WRITING AT KEY Language English ISBN-10 1853469165 ISBN-13 9781853469169 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Imprint David Fulton Publishers Ltd Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 372.623044 Edition 1st Place of Publication London Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation Freelance writer, poet and educational consultant. He has authored and Series Writers' Workshop Pages 80 Replaced by 9780415520348 DOI 10.1604/9781853469169 UK Release Date 2003-06-20 AU Release Date 2003-06-20 NZ Release Date 2003-06-20 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2003-06-20 Alternative 9781138419988 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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