Creating Writers: A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

✍ Scribed by James Carter

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This unique and comprehensive text offers an original approach to teaching creative writing by exploring ideas, giving advice, and explaining workshop activities and has many contributors from some of today's most popular children's authors including: Jacqueline Wilson, Roger McGough, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman and David Almond.Creating Writers is a practical writing manual for teachers to use with upper primary and lower secondary level pupils that covers poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction: where do ideas come from?......Page 18
Creative Writing Manual......Page 22
Write from the start: ways to approach creative writing and writing workshops......Page 24
Poetry......Page 35
Fiction......Page 99
Non-fiction......Page 175
Author Visit Guide......Page 210
Author case studies......Page 212
Arranging an author visit......Page 251
Appendix: Further information on creative writing......Page 262
Reference texts and further reading......Page 263
Bibliography......Page 264

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