Oxford Reading Tree: TreeTops Storywriter: Year 6: Easy Buy Pack 4

The Y6 Storywriter CD-ROM and Pupil book guide children through a clear 5-step story writing process. The CD-ROM provides a unique planning grid, enabling the children to plan and structure their story before they begin to write, as well as support for improving and 'publishing' their writing. It contains specially commissioned, complete stories by top TreeTops authors which demonstrate the key features of each fiction text type. The Imagination Springboards section is packed with games and ideas for 'short-burst' creative writing, and the Writer's Toolkit is a handy reference bank to help children with the basics of grammar and punctuation, settings and characters. The Pupil Book supports children through the simple 5-step story writing process demonstrated on the CD-ROM. It contains ideas and advice on creating characters, settings and plots, and the key features of each fiction text type are clearly identified and explained. Interviews with top children's authors motivate children in their creative writing, and further consolidate text type features. The Storywriter Teacher's Guide is a clear, concise guide to getting the most out of Storywriter. It explains how to use the CD and Pupil Book, and includes notes on text type features, classroom use, marking and assessment for learning. TreeTops Storywriter Easy Buy Pack 4 contains: BL 1 Unlimited User CD-Rom BL 15 Pupil's Books BL 1 Teacher's Guide Review The approach is clear and straightforward with instructions in user-friendly speech. Its great strength is that it combines some easy-to-use, ready-prepared materials with the capacity to edit and build up one's own resources. ( Mavis Humphreys, Literacy Consultant, Staffordshire ) Links to the NLS are clear and the text types in the Pupil Book are fully appropriate. The clarity of the writing process is a real strength. ( Jackie Woodward, Leading Literacy Teacher and Literacy Consultant, Cambridgeshire ) This is an ideal way of making sure that ICT is really embedded in literacy teaching. As a SENCO I especially liked the frequent opportunities for differentiation that really addressed the needs of the less able pupil. I would definitely want to use this as a resource with my class...It would raise teacher confidence levels and raise the standards of children's independent story writing. ( Kathleen Horwood, Deputy Head and Class Teacher, Suffolk ) Book Description Storywriter Easy Buy Pack containing 15 Y6 Pupil Books, a single Y6 Teacher's Guide and a Y6 unlimited use CD-ROM