Developing Literacy And Creative Writing Through Storymaking Story Strands For 7 12 Year Olds

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033524159X
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Developing Literacy and Creative Writing through Storymaking: Story Strands for 7-12 year olds written by Steve Bowkett and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting practical resource is full of immediately usable activities to help children develop their literacy skills and creative writing abilities. The 'story strand' technique begins with one simple picture and by adding others to form a sequence, shows children how to build narrative in an enjoyable, creative and systematic way. Story strand activities help children weave their thoughts into a coherent pattern and so become more skilful writers. The activities are sequenced to increase the creative and intellectual demands on pupils, and can also be used individually to highlight different aspects of the writing process such as: Exploring the varied meanings of certain words through association webs Moving from simple to more complex sentences Learning how to enrich writing using strong, vivid adjectives, verbs and adverbs Understanding how to use connectives more insightfully to give narrative a greater logical consistency Creating narrative refinements such as subplots, flashbacks and 'cliffhangers' out of basic plot sequences A 'thinking skills' agenda underpins each story strand game, and many promote speaking and listening skills by encouraging discussion and collaborative exploration of the images. Supported by a companion website that includes downloadable images from the book, colour images and worked examples for the 'story string idea', additional activities and games, as well as links to the National Curriculum.

Author : Bowkett, Steve
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335241581
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Literacy And Creative Writing Through Storymaking: Story Strands For 7-12 Year Olds written by Bowkett, Steve and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story Strands is intended to be a practical resource full of immediately usable activities to help children develop their literacy skills and creative writing abilities. The book's approach is to use small simple visual images. The 'story strand' technique begins with one simple picture and, by adding others to form a sequence, shows children how to build narrative in an enjoyable, creative and systematic way. Story strand activities help children to weave their thoughts into a coherent pattern and so become more skilful writers.

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639155
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing written by Steve Bowkett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing: Story Steps for 9-12 Year Olds is a practical and easy-to-use teacher resource helping children across a wide age and ability range to develop the skills necessary to write more effectively. Step-by-step instructions encourage children to tackle tasks of increasing difficulty while broadening their knowledge and experiences of fictional genres. With chapters separated into distinct genres: ghost story, fantasy, science fiction, history, pirate story, thriller and Gothic horror, this book: Offers a summary at the start of each chapter to help teachers select the relevant activities. Covers multiple aspects of storytelling from narrative structure, plots, characters and settings to vocabulary, word choice, sentence structure and punctuation. Provides a cross referencing grid showing which aspects of writing appear in each chapter. Includes guidance notes, extension activities and general tips. Adaptable to different teaching situations, this book offers the opportunity for teachers to work through the book genre by genre or take a 'skills route' with different activities from different chapters to create their own programme of study. Fully illustrated and supporting the requirements of the National Curriculum, Developing Thinking Skills Through Creative Writing is a valuable aid for all Key Stage 2 teachers.

Author : Simon Brownhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317618858
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stimulating Emerging Story Writing! written by Simon Brownhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating Emerging Story Writing! Inspiring Children aged 3-7 offers innovative and exciting ways to inspire young children to want to create stories and develop their emerging story writing skills. This practical guide offers comprehensive and informed support for professionals to effectively engage ‘child authors’ in stimulating story writing activities. Packed full of story ideas, resource suggestions and practical activities, the book explores the various ways professionals can help young children to develop the six key elements of story, these being character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution and ending. All of the ideas in the book are designed to support a setting’s daily writing provision such as mark making opportunities, role play and using simple open ended play resources. Separated into two sections and with reference to the EYFS and Key Stage 1 curricula, this timely new text provides practitioners with tried and tested strategies and ideas that can be used with immediate effect. Chapters include: Creating Characters The Plot Thickens Inspired Ideas Resourcing the Story Stimulation This timely new text is the perfect guide for inspiring young children aged 3-7 in the classroom and will be an essential resource for practitioners, teachers and students on both early years and teacher training courses.

Author : MacLusky, Julie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335242790
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Creative Writing In The Primary School: Delight, Entice, Inspire! written by MacLusky, Julie and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to support and develop creative writing activity in the primary curriculum, offering a balanced mix of both theoretical background and practical writing ideas.

Author : Simon Brownhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317618912
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stimulating Story Writing! written by Simon Brownhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating Story Writing! Inspiring Children aged 7-11 offers innovative and exciting ways to inspire children to want to create stories and develop their story writing skills. This practical guide offers comprehensive and informed support for professionals to effectively engage ‘child authors’ in stimulating story writing activity. Packed full of story ideas, resource suggestions and practical activities, the book explores various ways professionals can help children to develop the six key elements of story, these being character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution and ending. All of the ideas in the book are designed to complement and enrich existing writing provision in classrooms with strategies such as role play, the use of different technologies, and using simple open ended resources as story stimuli. Separated into two sections and with reference to the Key Stage 2 curricula, this timely new text provides professionals with tried and tested strategies and ideas that can be used with immediate effect. Chapters include: • Creating Characters • The Plot Thickens • Inspired Ideas • Resourcing the Story Stimulation This timely new text is the perfect guide for inspiring children aged 7-11 in the classroom and will be an essential resource for teachers and students on teacher training courses.

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441168044
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Creative Approach to Teaching Writing written by Steve Bowkett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should children learn to write fluently? What difference will it make to them and the opportunities available to them later on in life? The ability to communicate clearly, accurately and persuasively is a vital life skill. Deficiencies in motivation and thinking skills pervade the challenge of improving children's literacy levels. Get Them Thinking Like Writers! combines practical activities to help children aged 7-11 develop their writing skills, with insights into the attitude that experienced writers apply to their craft. The activities explore different working methods - such as how authors tap into and develop their creativity and how they deal with 'writer's block' - and are supported by strategies for thinking that will develop children's literacy and the way they use language to express their opinions in all subject areas. Steve Bowkett, author, storyteller and education consultant, provides the key concepts and learning benefits of each strategy, along with a series of activities, extension ideas and useful links. Linked resources can be found on the series companion website.

Author : Stephen Bowkett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415675510
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing written by Stephen Bowkett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reading comic books children are engaging with highly complex and structured narrative forms. Whether they realise it or not, their emergent visual literacy promotes thinking skills and develops wider metacognitive abilities. Using Comic Art not only motivates children to read more widely, but also enables them to enjoy a richer imagined world when reading comics, text based stories and their own written work. The book sets out a range of practical techniques and activities which focus on various aspects of narrative, including: using comic art as a visual organiser for planning writing openings and endings identifying with the reader, using different genres and developing characters creating pace, drama, tension and anticipation includes 'Kapow!' techniques to kick start lessons an afterword on the learning value of comics.

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136842888
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom written by Steve Bowkett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a range of concepts, principles and techniques gathered under the term ‘emotional intelligence’, and the way that this powerfully influences pupils’ behaviour and learning in the classroom. Creative activities are suggested throughout, leading towards a more explicit focus on coaching methods to help pupils become independent, creative and effective learners able to set goals, generate ideas, solve problems and arrive at reasoned decisions. This book focuses on five key areas: self-awareness innovative and inventive thinking independent enquiry collaborative learning communication skills. Dealing in an engaging way with social and emotional aspects of learning, personalised learning, thinking skills and social inclusion, the authors offer teachers all of the necessary tools to help pupils build life- and people-skills which will extend beyond school. It will be of interest to all practising teachers, teaching assistants and school counsellors working with young people.

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317667328
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jumpstart! Thinking Skills and Problem Solving written by Steve Bowkett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jumpstart! Thinking Skills and Problem Solving presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities which will jumpstart students’ understanding of problem solving in action. If you are one of the thousands of teachers looking for a range of practical and fun ideas to engage pupils in effective proactive learning, then this is the perfect book for you. Specifically written to help teachers work within the guidelines of the new curriculum, activities in the book will help pupils to explore and learn a wide range of problem solving and independent thinking skills in an atmosphere of fun, mutual support and tolerance. Sections within the book reflect key areas of the new curriculum and offer a treasure trove of ideas for building problem solving and thinking skills into daily teaching.and provide tried and tested methods of helping children ‘learn how to learn’. Areas include:- Building problem solving confidence Thinking and problem solving in literacy Thinking and Problem solving in science Problem solving in philosophy Emotional resourcefulness and life skills Jumpstart! Thinking Skills and Problem Solving will celebrate the joy of critical and independent thinking and become a vital resource for all classroom teachers at Key Stage 2 and 3.