How often do you hear your pupils cry 'what can I write about?'
1001 Brilliant Writing Ideas offers teachers endless ideas and inventive suggestions, opening up new opportunities for creative writing lessons. With over 1000 different story-starters across a vast range of genres and narrative styles, this versatile book provides food for thought for pupils of a wide range of ages and abilities.
This highly practical and richly illustrated photocopiable resource
- Addresses the blank mind dilemma, offering pupils a plethora of story-writing ideas and suggestions
- Enables teachers to inspire pupils who struggle with creative writing
- Provides prompts to set ideas into motion, whilst leaving plenty of scope for original and creative thought
- Challenges pupils, encouraging them to use higher level thinking skills
- Offers mix and match stimulus pieces which can be used independently or put together to give pupils more or less support as required
Any teacher whose inventiveness is flagging, and whose pupils are running out of ideas, will find this an essential classroom resource.
1. Pleasurable and Preposterous Plots to Ponder
2. Absurdities
3. Nature: Wild and Wonderful
4. Curious Combinations
5. Story Starters
6. Menagerie Muses
7. Adventures in Space
8. Charismatic Characters
9. Unusual Perspectives
10. Fabulous and Fanciful Fashions
11. Sinister Scallywags, Vexatious Villains, Rogues and Rascals
12. If I Could
13. Myriad of Mixes
14. Sticky Situations
15. Tantalising Titles
16. Perky Pets
17. Ghostly, Ghoulish and Ghastly
18. Sea and Sky
19. Delightful and Delicious Delicacies
20. World of Wizardry, Wicked Witches and Magic
21. Fairies and Fantasies
22. Marvellous Music
23. Journeys Far and Wide
24. Sensational Settings
25. Fearless Friends and Formidable Foes
26. Sleeping and Dreaming
27. Wonderful World of Science
28. Myths and Mysteries
29. A Final Few
Ron Shaw has many years of classroom experience and is the author of more than 40 books helping primary and secondary school students to improve their thinking skills.
