Cracking Creative Writing in KS2 - Horner, David

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Résumé :
Transform writing lessons with 100+ fun, practical, curriculum-friendly activities. Cracking Creative Writing in KS2 gives teachers ready-to-use tasks that spark creativity, build skills and help pupils take pride in their writing. Writing doesn't have to be dull, slow, or a chore. It can be quick, fun, and incredibly rewarding - and this book proves it! Inside, you'll find over 100 tried-and-tested activities designed to spark creativity in Key Stage 2 children. Each activity kicks off with a worked example, showing exactly the kind of piece they're aiming for. Then, with clear step-by-step guidance, children are encouraged to craft their own writing - something they can be genuinely proud of. The whole idea? To put the writer in charge of their work, not the other way round. Activities take around 30-60 minutes and cover everything from creative approaches to tricky grammar to playful ways of exploring language. Some are simple, others more challenging, but all of them are rooted in real writing - no boring, disconnected exercises here! Instead, children learn by experimenting with their own words, discovering how language works, why rules matter, and - most importantly - what exciting things they can do with it. These aren't just free writing tasks. Each activity has a clear challenge, structure, and purpose - almost like a game plan. Sometimes that means using a dictionary or thesaurus to stretch an idea, and children are guided on that right from the start. At its heart, this book is about showing children that writing matters. Teachers want children to succeed at it, and children themselves want to feel good at it. With the right tools - and a dash of fun - writing can become not only a skill but a source of genuine enjoyment....

Biographie:
After many years as a teacher, David Horner has worked as a freelance writer in education, visiting hundreds of mainstream and special schools in the UK and abroad. Requests for return visits have meant a constant need for fresh ideas - one that would work successfully in the limited period of a busy school timetable!...

Sommaire:
Cracking Creative Writing contains 100+ tried and tested activities which will inspire Key Stage 2 children to write creatively and be in charge of their own creative writing process. Each sheet begins with a worked example showing the kind of finished piece being aimed at. Then step-by-step instructions explain what young writers need to do to create their own piece of writing that they can be proud of. The aim throughout is for the writer to be independent and in charge of their own writing, not the other way round. The activities take between 30 and 60 minutes each to complete and cover a great range of writing-related features and terms as well as some creative routes into the trickier aspects of the National Curriculum grammar requirements. The ideas here cover a great range of writing-related features and terms as well as some creative routes into those trickier aspects of English grammar and punctuation. Some are straightforward, others more demanding. Rather than using decontextualized exercises, these activities invite young writers to explore the language. The children's own creative writing becomes the context for their playing with, and thus learning about, the language - how it works, its rules, its possibilities - and crucially therefore, what they can do with it. These are not 'free' writing activities...