At the Stroke of Midnight , livre ebook

pages

English

Ebooks

2012

Écrit par
Sally Jones

Publié par
Andrews UK

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Lire un extrait

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne En savoir plus

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

pages

English

Ebook

2012

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Lire un extrait

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne En savoir plus

Publié par

Andrews UK

Date de parution

24 septembre 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781907733611

Langue

English

The 'Creative Writing Tutor' scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child's imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide 'a tutor' for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style.Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations.

Voir

Publié par

Andrews UK

Date de parution

24 septembre 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781907733611

Langue

English

Éducation Education

Title Page
Creative Writing Tutor
AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT
by
Sally A Jones
and
Amanda C Jones

Publisher Information
© Copyright 2009, 2012 Sally A. Jones and Amanda C. Jones
First Published by
Guinea Pig Education
2 Cobs Way,
New Haw,
Addlestone, Surrey,
KT15 3AF.
www.guineapigeducation.co.uk
Digital edition converted and distributed in 2012 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or copied for commercial purposes and profit without the prior written permission of the publishers.

Creative Writing Tutor Series
Choose a topic and start to practise writing. Each booklet has a theme to help you start to write…stories, reports, articles, letters and many more. Start collecting them now.
Guinea Pig creative writing booklets also provide extra practice for children who have completed these other titles from Guinea Pig Education and Andrews UK:
- Creative Story Writing
- Persuasive Writing & Argument
- Information Writing ISBN
They are for: Children who are working at Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum, levels 3-5 (in Years 5 and 6 of primary school), Children who are working at Key Stage 3, levels 3-5 (Years 7 and 8 of Secondary School).
They provide practice for all 9-13 year olds, especially children taking 11+ examinations.

First things first...
Let’s learn to write fiction.
When you write fiction, you must: Decide who will be your audience? Think of different genres - realistic, detective, ghost, gothic horror. Ask what is the purpose of my writing?
When you write to entertain, remember that you must : Have an interesting opening and a memorable ending Have good characters, setting and plot Build up suspense Use dialogue - to move the story along Use a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences
Plan your fiction writing:
PARAGRAPH 1 Write an introduction to set the scene for your description. Introduce the characters and the setting. Introduce the plot.
Write in FIRST PERSON, so you are the main character telling the story (using I or we), or... in THIRD PERSON (using he or she) as if you were a fly watching from the wall.
PARAGRAPH 2 Develop the plot. What might happen to trigger off a series of events? Build up suspense.
PARAGRAPH 3 Wind up your story with a good ending. In the resolution you will have solved all the problems. It could be happy, sad, a cliff hanger (which leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind), or a moral ending Have a memorable final sentence.
Remember Use connectives or conjunctions: and or but (to join compound sentences) or, so, if, when, while, after, before, because, unless, until, whereas, although (to join complex sentences) use pro