Able Writers in Your School will help educators develop the potential of
gifted pupils - and all the other pupils in the school as well! It
passes on ideas, practical advice and lesson plans that the authors,
Brian Moses and Roger Stevens, have found to work especially well with
the groups of able writers they have taught over the last few years.
Over 70 inspirational examples of children's work show how ideas work in
practice and raise the standard of children's work. Suggestions for
poetry range from taking an idea and stretching it, making the familiar
scary and dealing with serious issues. The chapters on prose include
creating a realistic character, building conflict, looking at point of
view and developing dialogue. Brain Moses is one of Britain's best-loved
children's poets and has published over 160 books and performed in over
2000 schools across the UK and Europe. Roger Stevens is a performance
poet, author, musician and artist. His poems have appeared in more than
one hundred anthologies and he performs his poetry and runs creative
writing workshops for both young and old. In 2002, Brian Moses set up
the Able Writers Scheme to enable professional writers to work with
groups of talented pupils drawn from clusters of schools, to challenge
them and develop their writing skills. The Able Writers Scheme is now
supported by the National Education Trust. Able Writers in Your School
gives you the chance to stretch your able writers in any direction their
creativity takes them.
