ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an explanation of how and why historians write about history and gives practical advice to writer-teachers wishing to write their own texts, followed by a series of suggested class writing projects including people’s history (local and social history and recounting history), biography and historical account. 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 and 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.
