This book has been designed as a practical resource to help upper KS2 and lower
KS3 pupils master the complex network of skills that contribute to what is
commonly called ‘creative writing’, with the emphasis on prose fiction. The modules
lead pupils through the process from how to generate first ideas to a polished draft
piece of work and beyond.
The modules can be used as stand-alone units that the teacher may use within
existing programmes of work, or be combined to form short topics on different
aspects of creative writing – genre, characters, settings and so on. However, the
activities are arranged such that pupils can also learn more independently by
making their own decisions about what they need to know and therefore how to
proceed from unit to unit. This ‘choose your own adventure’ format means that
more confident and/or experienced writers can bypass modules that are not relevant
or that would simply duplicate thinking they have already done. On the other hand,
less experienced writers will benefit from the more highly scaffolded process of
exploring the elements of writing at a more basic level, or in greater detail as
appropriate.