Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing

<p><em>Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing: Story Steps for 9-12 Year Olds</em> 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. </p><p>With chapters separated into distinct genres: ghost story fantasy science fiction history pirate story thriller and Gothic horror this book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Offers a summary at the start of each chapter to help teachers select the relevant activities. </li> <p> </p> <li>Covers multiple aspects of storytelling from narrative structure plots characters and settings to vocabulary word choice sentence structure and punctuation.</li> <p> </p> <li>Provides a cross referencing grid showing which aspects of writing appear in each chapter.</li> <p> </p> <li>Includes guidance notes extension activities and general tips.</li> </ul><p>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 <i>Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing</i> is a valuable aid for all Key Stage 2 teachers. </p>