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    Changes: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
    Changes: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
    Changes: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
    Ebook37 pages32 minutes

    Changes: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

    By Sally Jones and Amanda Jones

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuinea Pig Education
    Release dateNov 26, 2012
    ISBN9781907733598
    Changes: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

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      Book preview

      Changes - Sally Jones

      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

      Start with a memorable first sentence to make the reader want to read on.

      Introduce the characters and the setting.

      Introduce the plot.

      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.

      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.

      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 pronouns - who, which, whose, what,that

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