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Teaching Story Writing in Primary

Curriculum-aligned, classroom-ready resources and strategies

Christopher Youles

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English
Bloomsbury Education
04 March 2025
'This is a rich addition to the subject of story writing' Pie Corbett, poet, storyteller and educational consultant @PIeCorbett

Everything you need to teach story writing to primary pupils, packed full of effective, curriculum-aligned, classroom-ready resources and strategies.

To be used as a standalone or alongside existing writing schemes, this book contains comprehensive practical guidance

on planning and teaching story writing, including: how to pick the right text, effective strategies for selecting vocabulary and teaching pupils how to edit. Step-by-step advice covers all elements of story writing, including the difference between plot and story, story shapes and how to use them, characters and their goals and the effective use of dialogue.

Written by an experienced classroom teacher, all of the classroom-ready strategies are in line with the National Curriculum and are tailored for every Key Stage and ability level, making this the ideal time-saving resource for any primary teacher and any writing scheme.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Education
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 188mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9781801994446
ISBN 10:   1801994447
Pages:   176
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Teaching Story Writing in Primary: Curriculum-aligned, classroom-ready resources and strategies

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 *


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