This text offers creative ideas for turning children into enthusiastic authors. Book making provides both motivation for writing and the stimulus for different writing genres - fiction, poetry and non-fiction. It also supports many areas of the English programmes of study, including compositional skills, communicating meaning, presentation skills, and using a variety of forms for different purposes and audiences. The practical making of books also supports the curriculum in art - investigation and making - and design and technology - designing, making and using sheet materials.

 

This book is part of a book series called Bright Ideas .

There are 128 pages in this book. It is toy and movable. This book was published 1995 by Scholastic .

Moira Andrew is a former headteacher and College of Education lecturer. She is currently a freelance writer and a 'poet-in-schools'. Moira writes poetry for adults as well as children. She also writes teacher's books, children's stories and early reading books and is one of our Letterland Reading At Home authors. Her publications include titles in the Belair Teacher's range and she has written for Longman, Puffin, Heinemann, Scholastic, Ginn, Nelson and OUP.

This book has the following chapters: Learning to write through books; from ideas to printed page; beginning with books; shape books; zigzag books; big and small; information books.