ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an explanation of how and why authors and hobbyist writers write narratives and gives practical advice to writer-teachers wishing to write their own stories, followed by suggestions for a series of class writing projects. These projects include fairy tales, fables, character- and setting-driven stories, developed short stories, flash fiction and micro-fiction. Each writing project is prefaced by an explanation as to why it will be useful for the development of young apprentice writers and how it is linked to previous and future projects. It gives teaching points for consideration. Each project provides teachers with idea generation techniques that the children can use to inform their own topic ideas and, finally, offers a list of high-quality texts which could help their writing development.
