Activities for writing fantasy stories - Maggie Lovatt

A series of books of ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacherguidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writingwith whole class and groups. Each book covers one specific writingtype and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge aboutshared and guided writing, plus give them the teaching resourcethey need to improve practiceEach book has 4 sections: Section 1 'Using Good Examples' looks attwo specific writing models with Shared Writing activities thatenable children (and teachers) to develop knowledge and understndingof the text type. Section 2,'developing Writing', offers aset of supportive activities to prompt children to plan and writewithin the text type. Section 3, 'Writing' shows children how tput their writing ideas and planning together into written worSection 4, 'Review', gives opportunities for children to redraftassess and improve their own writing, plus subject knowledge, usefulrefernce information, and advice for teachers.* clarity of teacher support* self contained package with lesson plans plus photocopiable resourcesThe activities in FANTASY STORIES (9-11 yrs) enable children to:* identify generic features of fantasy stories* explore and compare features of fantasy stories by looking at examplesin texts, TV, films* create own version of fantasy features and experiment with them*produce an extended fantasy story which incorporates several ofthe indentified feature