Wordtamer - Activities to Inspire Creative Thinking and Writing

Imagine a funfair in the classroom...

invite dragons to school-let pupils travel through time!

Written by award-winning children-s author Judy Waite, Wordtamer offers over fifty ideas for exciting, innovative writing activities and creative workshops. The book explores how authors actually work and what they achieve through their methods. It considers how teachers and children can incorporate these techniques into their own work, and so improve creative writing.

Wordtamer provides easy-to-follow instructions to:

• set up and run inspiring writing lessons and workshops
• cover basic elements such as character and setting
• identify craft skills that link writing with the school curriculum 
• develop ideas into contemporary, science fiction, fantasy or time-travel scenarios using tried-and-tested templates that expand on core concepts