Activities for Writing Life Stories 9-11 - Non-fiction for Ages 9-11 (Paperback)

This title includes a series of books of ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writing with whole class and groups. Each book covers one specific writing type and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge about shared and guided writing, plus give them the teaching resource they need to improve practice. This title offers clarity of teacher support and self-contained package with lesson plans plus photocopiable resources. The activities in "Life Stories" (9-11 yrs) enable children to: explore the genre of autobiography as readers and writers; understand the literary and linguistic features of the genre; learn how to use the stages of writing process to produce polished fragments of autobiographical writing; collect, select, and discard interesting detail; consider fact and opinion in the context of writing (auto) biography; and, look at how autobiographers use first person in creating vivid personal recounts.