Christopher Youles is a classroom teacher with over 20 years of experience. In that time, he has been an assistant head, an English lead, a writing moderator and a teacher trainer. As a specialist leader in education, he coached leadership teams to improve the standards of how writing is taught in schools. Chris is the author of Sentence Models for Creative Writing (John Catt) and he has also written comedy for BBC Radio 4. Follow Chris on social media @ChrisYoules.
This book is the ideal solution for every primary teacher seeking to unleash the power of story writing. It is packed full of practical tips, worked examples and interesting ideas. * Alex Quigley, author of Why Learning Fails (And What To Do About It) * A fantastic resource that will help you get the best out of your pupils. All teachers should read this – I cannot recommend this book highly enough. * Jenny Pearson, KS2 teacher and author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates * A focus on the basics of a sentence-based model, the importance of modelling everything, telling our pupils ‘why’ and giving them the chance to apply what they’ve learnt, means Chris Youles has produced a terrific resource with ideas and prompts to support pupils’ story writing. * Mary Myatt, education author and speaker @MaryMyatt * As a child (and sometimes even now) writing filled me with panic, so what I really like about Chris’ book is how it approaches writing from the POV of the child who is faced with the terror of the blank page. * Tom Palmer, children’s author @tompalmerauthor *