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

This book has exceeded all expectations to be honest. I thought I knew a fair bit about primary literacy - but this book revealed SO much about planning and teaching effective stories/narratives. It's probably more centred on KS2 than KS1, but it's well worth buying for any primary teacher/English lead. I really can't praise it enough. Pair it with a more grammar/non-fiction-centred book like 'The Writing Revolution' and you're sorted.

This book is gold and explained perfectly by examples ,structures ,models it has everything,it has stopped the confusion of questions I was dealing with ,which know one talks about or thought about ,just buy the book if you're an author,teacher etc

An incredible book. It’s actually 2 books in one, as the second half delves into sentence level instructional routines. It’s given me a completely fresh but easy to implement view on teaching writing.

I have been teaching 5 years and have got loads of great ideas from this book to refine my teaching. This book is easy to read and packed full of great strategies.

Very thorough and not over-long. Systematically looks at areas of story-writing for primary schools, and even contains a joke here and there. Clearly written by someone with experience, this is full of tips and structure to the planning and delivering of story-writing techniques and sessions. The graphs there are are more diagrams and helpful visual aids. I like the use of quotes (and jokes), with some brief lesson plans as well. One section I liked was Proofreading for pupils, always something my own son and I are suggested we look at every Parents' Evening. The stages suggested here are very useful and easy to remember (and there's a helpful suggestion of a Youtube video on this subject). Will be of huge use for those new to the profession or working with upper primary for the first time, but a great resources for any primary school.