Teaching Story Writing in Primary

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Everything you need to teach story writing to primary pupils, packed full of effective, curriculum-aligned, classroom-ready resources and strategies. To be used as a standalone or alongside existing writing schemes, this book contains comprehensive practical guidance on planning and teaching story writing, including: how to pick the right text, effective strategies for selecting vocabulary and teaching pupils how to edit. Step-by-step advice covers all elements of story writing, including the difference between plot and story, story shapes and how to use them, characters and their goals and the effective use of dialogue. Written by an experienced classroom teacher, all of the classroom-ready strategies are in line with the National Curriculum and are tailored for every Key Stage and ability level, making this the ideal time-saving resource for any primary teacher and any writing scheme.

Reviews

This book is the ideal solution for every primary teacher seeking to unleash the power of story writing. It is packed full of practical tips, worked examples and interesting ideas. * Alex Quigley, author of Why Learning Fails (And What To Do About It) *
A fantastic resource that will help you get the best out of your pupils. All teachers should read this I cannot recommend this book highly enough. * Jenny Pearson, KS2 teacher and author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates *
A focus on the basics of a sentence-based model, the importance of modelling everything, telling our pupils why and giving them the chance to apply what theyve learnt, means Chris Youles has produced a terrific resource with ideas and prompts to support pupils story writing. * Mary Myatt, education author and speaker @MaryMyatt *
As a child (and sometimes even now) writing filled me with panic, so what I really like about Chris book is how it approaches writing from the POV of the child who is faced with the terror of the blank page. * Tom Palmer, childrens author @tompalmerauthor *
A fascinating and detailed look at the concept of story in the curriculum. All too often, teachers are left to cobble together ideas, methods and strategies from various sources to tackle the teaching of story writing. Christopher Youles' book, however, presents a compendium of ideas and strategies to empower teachers and save time. Not everyone is an expert in storytelling, but Youles provides us with the perfect opportunity to improve. I wish I had this book when I started to teach. Filled to the brim with ideas. * Chris Curtis, Head of English at a secondary school in the Midlands @Xris32 *
This is a rich addition to the subject of story writing. * Pie Corbett, poet, storyteller and educational consultant @PieCorbett *

Author Bio

Christopher Youles is a classroom teacher with over 20 years of experience. In that time, he has been an assistant head, an English lead, a writing moderator and a teacher trainer. As a specialist leader in education, he coached leadership teams to improve the standards of how writing is taught in schools. Chris is the author of Sentence Models for Creative Writing (John Catt) and he has also written comedy for BBC Radio 4. Follow Chris on social media @ChrisYoules.