Creating writers : a creative writing manual for key stage 2 by James Carter

By James Carter

This revised and up-to-date variation deals a clean, new angle to educating artistic writing. It includes versions of writing from well known kid's authors Jaqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman, David Almond and Roger McGough. Photocopiable assets for academics are included.

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bargains a clean method of educating artistic writing. This e-book comprises versions of writing from renowned kid's authors like Jaqueline Wilson Philip Pullman, David Almond and Roger McGough. Read more...

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And that’s how the story ends . . Just fine! Tony Mitton Poetry ‘Little Red Rap’ by Tony Mitton ‘Little Red Rap’ (see facing page) is a rap poem. Here, Tony Mitton talks about writing the poem and discusses alliteration, assonance, colloquial words, couplets, genre, narrative, quatrain, refrain, rhyme, rhythm and stanzas. TONY MITTON: When I was working as a part-time special needs teacher at Kings Hedges School in Cambridge, I used to visit an Infants class. I’d go and do poetry with this class during the breaktimes, just for the pleasure of it.

But like fire, it makes a good servant and a terrible master. You have to stay in control of it. I recommend that children don’t just use the first word that springs to mind, that they brainstorm alternative words. I encourage children to go through the alphabet thinking of alternative word beginnings to help them find a rhyme, for example: A.. / B.. / Bl.. / Br.. / C.. / Ch.. / Cl.. / Cr.. – and so on. Bad rhymes – words just used for the sake of it that have no meaning in the context of the poem – need to be highlighted, so that children are aware of what they shouldn’t do.

And I’m sure it’s been done by people in the past – I’m sure there are versions of fairy tales told in 39 Poetry Chicago gangster language by an American author back in the 1920s. The two rap books after Big Bad Raps were in the horror genre, with characters such as Dracula and Frankenstein. And as the series went on, the books went up the age range, and they became more sophisticated. I tried to be quite true to the original stories, but in my version, Red is given a kind of feminist power – she’s the one who drives the wolf away at the end, not the woodcutter as in most versions of the tale.

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