Books with title Creative Writing Rocket

Creative Story Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. It is the first in the Teach Your Child to Write Good English series. Creative Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor and written with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically and in depth on Creative Writing required by the National Curriculum, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write imaginatively. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11 years). It contains material suitable for teacher assessments in year 6 and for students learning English as a foreign language. Creative Story Writing will guide students through the story writing process, as if they had a tutor by their side. This book is designed to help the child with thinking up ideas, providing starting points for writing, structuring and organizing their writing into paragraphs. It features writing a good introduction with characters, setting and plot, building up suspense and winding up the plot with a suitable resolution. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. The student will investigate different narrative structures for writing stories, exploring various viewpoints so they can decide if they write in first or third person. They will learn to evoke mood and atmosphere by using good vocabulary. Creative Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Creative Writing is ideal for working through at home, supplementing school work. By working methodically through this book the students will grow in confidence and will learn to enjoy writing.Also in the 'Teach Your Child Good English' series -Learning Persuasive Writing & Argument: 9780955831515, Information Writing: 9780955831522

Creative Writing Ideas presents a wide variety of motivating lessons that will get student's creative juices flowing. The interesting writing prompts help students generate the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm needed in order to begin a writing task. There are 78 activities in all, each with complete directions. Eleven types of writing experiences are presented: shape books, draw and write, riddles, sequence and write, fill in the missing words, story starters, cartoons, descriptive paragraphs, writing directions, letter writing, and poetry. All activities are accompanied by reproducible writing forms. Expanded description:Selected examples of writing activities include:*Shape Books - bear, spaceship*Draw & Write - whale, robot*Riddles - brown bag riddles, animal pop-up riddles Cartoons - the runner, penguin comics*Writing Directions - how to change a light bulb, treasure hunt Letter Writing - alien pen pals, dear Mr. President*Poetry - cinquain, acrostics, haikuPlenty of humorous illustrations throughout the book make these exercises inviting to young students. All 96 pages are reproducible and perforated for easy removal.