Excel Essential Skills: Creative Writing Years 7-8

This book extends the successful 'Excel Basic Skills Years 5-6 Creative Writing'. Like its predecessor, the book provides an accessible and enjoyable means of developing story writing ability. It covers the main features of story writing in further depth and extends students' story writing abilities with units on character development, figures of speech, varying text type and story atmosphere. There is plenty of practical advice on the craft of story writing and suggestions for further development.

In this book your child will find:
- self-contained units of work with scores of examples, writing tips, reading tasks and exercises
- techniques to help them improve their story writing
- sample answers to all questions
- easy-to-read format that makes writing enjoyable
- answers to all questions