Writing Exciting Ghost Stories: Age 9 Plus: Ghost Story Plot Skeletons
Alan Peat, Julie Barnfather, Glyn Matthews
eBook
(Creative Educational Press Ltd, Oct. 11, 2016)
Writing Exciting Ghost Stories provides teachers with 25 stunningly illustrated plot outlines, which can be used to inspire children to produce enjoyable, effective narrative writing.A range of Plot Skeletons is provided, from simple through to more complex, and each skeleton is complemented by an innovative writing prompt symbol key. The latter has been shown to be effective in trial runs effected in a number of schools and has helped pupils to write their own excellent examples of this ever popular genre.Plot skeletons make explicit the many and varied plot structures that authors use to produce gripping ghost stories and their use will help pupils to develop an holistic understanding of narrative writing… and ‘story sense’.