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Cracking Creative Writing in KS1 contains 75+ creative writing activities linked to the grammar requirements of the National Curriculum, providing pupils with opportunities to practise, reinforce and consolidate their grammar and punctuation skills. The activities encourage children in Years 1 and 2 to engage with the prescribed elements of English, to use, manipulate and play with them - and in the process - discover how they can use them effectively their own writing. Through playing and experimenting with the language, pupils will start to see themselves as confident and increasingly successful writers. All the activities are designed to fit easily into one lesson making it easy to integrate them into your planning and children are usually excited and surprised by what they can achieve in a very short time. Each activity includes a stimulus poem or passage, to share withpupils and inspire them. Differentiation suggestions are provided, making the activities easily adaptable for children of different abilities.

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David Horner runs workshops for children and teachers on creative writing. He taught English and drama for 15 years before going on to be an advisory teacher with Cheshire LEA for 6 years and then a freelance writer and storyteller for nearly 20 years. With illustrator Anne Hodgkiss, David has published 10 books of poems for children and his poems have also appeared in many children's anthologies and been featured on radio. David writes regularly on creative writing in relation to young readers and writers and gives readings and performances to audiences of all ages and abilities.

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