Story Workshops: Talk for Writing, Ages 7-12

Author:   Pie Corbett (Freelance writer, poet and educational consultant, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd New edition
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9780415520355


Pages:   80
Publication Date:   01 January 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Pie Corbett (Freelance writer, poet and educational consultant, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd New edition
ISBN:  

9780415520355


ISBN 10:   0415520355
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   01 January 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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1. Introduction 2. Capturing stories (techniques for creating ideas, creating story triggers and plots, using common story types 3. Characterisation (planning your character, characterisation through saying and doing, showing rather than telling) 4. Settings (creating settings, scary settings, settings in different types of story) 5. Openings (writing opening lines and paragraphs, character openings, setting openings, action openings) 6. Paragraphing (resolutions and endings, endings, action, build-up, suspense, dilemmas, cliffhangers, flashbacks, paragraph changes) 7. Style (using words, varying sentences, using stylistic devices, changing viewpoint) 8. Different types of story

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Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He has worked as English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLT. He is the author of a wide range of training materials and resources for teachers, and has advised the government on both primary and KS3 literacy initiatives, especially on the teaching of writing. He has authored over forty books including the current Writers' Workshop editions, the Writing Models series as well as Jumpstart! Literacy, Jumpstart! Poetry and Jumpstart! Storymaking.

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