ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an explanation of how and why memoirists write personal narrative and gives practical advice to writer-teachers wishing to write their own memoir. It offers a series of suggestions for class writing projects including memoir and autobiography. Each writing project is prefaced with an explanation as to why it will be useful for the development of young apprentice writers and how it is linked to past and future projects. Each one gives idea generation techniques that children can use to find their own topic ideas and a list of high-quality texts which could help their writing development.
