Wordtamer: Activities to Inspire Creative Thinking and Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138694606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 218 str.

Judy Waite

Opis

Written by an award-winning author, Wordtamer offers an exciting collection of creative activities and guided writing workshop ideas to motivate and engage your students. Each tried-and-tested template provides a clear step-by-step approach, with the flexibility to adapt or amend it to suit specific group sizes and teaching needs. With visual and kinaesthetic examples to engage reluctant writers, each activity revisits and consolidates skills to inspire and encourage enriched, complex and detailed responses. Wordtamer is a must-read for teachers looking to improve and develop their teaching styles and to improve children's writing, through a range of innovative and interactive activities.

Spis treści

Wordtamer: The What and The Why Part 1: Pre-Performance Introduction 1. Writers in Schools 2. Room for Writing 3. Good, Better and Brilliant 4. The Right to Write 5. Creative Places and Creative Spaces Part 2: The Training Ground: Learning the Craft 6. Setting the Scene 7. Characters: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 8. Plot – What’s the Point 9. Talking of Good Dialogue 10. Capturing the Mood Part 3. Showtime 11. Legend of the Fading Sun 12. The Head Teacher’s Brain is Missing 13. Sea World 14. Virtual Reality 15. Past Times 16. Once There was an Egg 17. Thinking Hats 18. When the World Went Wrong 18. ‘A’ is for Alien 19. Endangered Species – Welcome to my World

O autorze

Judy Waite is an award-winning author and has written over fifty titles ranging from picture books for very young readers, to hard-hitting teenage novels. Having formerly worked in the field of learning support at primary and secondary level, Judy also has extensive experience working in schools as an author and regularly runs writing workshops and residencies for all ages. Judy is Senior Lecturer on the Creative Writing course at the University of Winchester, UK.