"A book packed with ideas and inspiration"
Over 90 non-fiction activities for children
Having reviewed and enjoyed Creative Writing Skills last year, I was excited at the thought of another book by Lexi Rees.
Wicked Writing Skills, as with its predecessor, is a book packed with original ideas for busy teachers. It is clear and concise, and it is easy to dip in and out of the extremely creative chapters.
As an English teacher, I am a firm believer in mixed ability classes and lessons that can be differentiated happily and successfully. This book achieves this so well as the ideas are varied, clearly laid out and interesting, with enough stimulus to appeal to the reluctant, and enough thought provoking phrases to appeal to the most eloquent and able. The layout is fun and eye-catching, with helpful hints from the author, dotted throughout. The author’s obvious enjoyment in writing this book, certainly shines through.
I like the variety of ideas, from debates and newspaper articles, to instruction and diary writing. It is a book packed with ideas and inspiration.
This is a super resource for the classroom or as a 'home school' resource. The diversity of the material allows you to dip in and out throughout the term, using the pages as and when appropriate. I also found that as many of the themes were quite broad, they can easily be adapted to link in with an ongoing theme in the classroom. The layout of the pages makes it quick and easy to photocopy and a great addition to the Creative Writing shelf.
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This is a must for teachers wanting to engage in Non Fiction activities with their children. The range of activities allow the book to be used in lots of other subjects such as Geography, History and even PE. I have little doubt the children will enjoy the activities that you, as a teacher, can select to use with your class, and that such activities will produce excellent and WICKED Writing!
This is an excellent resource which compliments the previous release Creative Writing Skills. As a teacher this makes my job a lot easier as the cleverly designed resources will work well with the class I teach. The book is clearly structured into 7 areas with many different ideas in these areas.
The "author tips" help on some of the pages and will allow children to become confident with their writing. The book is presented in such a way that children will engage with the clever writing activities to produce a good quality piece of work. I also like how there is a combination of the skills at the end of the book.... Read Full Review
A great selection of ideas, prompts and scaffolds to support young people carrying out non-fiction writing challenges at home.
Wicked Writing Skills provides a huge selection of fun non-fiction writing prompts for young people to tackle. This book provides scaffolds and writing prompts to encourage young learners to tackle different genres of non-fiction writing with interesting and fun themes. This book is perfect for families to use at home for holiday work or to give a boost to reluctant writers. The themes are engaging and their are useful tips to help children get better as they work through different challenges within the book.... Read Full Review
