Reading Lists: Animal Stories

Inventing Characters Read! Journal Word Notebook

Choosing Titles The Fab Four Golden Rules Generating Ideas Stealing Ideas From an Idea to a Plan Planning from a Picture Stories Based on a Passage Stories Based on a Sentence An Example of Good Planning

Describing a Location Longer descriptions Describing a character's appearance Dialogue Distinctive Voices Show, Don't Tell Characterisation: Shown Feelings More Characterisation Techniques Playing with Sentences Playscripts Action Suspense

What is story structure? 1 Exciting opening line 2 Set the scene 3 Talking and describing character 4 Characterisation 5 Suspense 6 Action 7 Cliffhanger Standing Out: How can you stand out from the crowd? Clever Clogs: Non-Linear Clever-clogs: Two perspectives Clever-clogs: Narrative voice Practice 11+ exam titles

Checking your story in an exam Redrafting = improving your story What if I run out of time in an exam? The Grumpy Examiner's Pet Hates

Year 2 into 3 Lemony Snicket After Harry Potter Must-Read Authors Spy Novels Horror Stories Classics Animal Stories Adventure Historical Fiction Myths & Legends Fantasy Family Stories & Comedies

Watership Down by Richard Adam. Not an easy read, and certainly not a ‘fluffy story about ‘ickle bunny rabbits’, but a cast-iron classic.

The Pig Who Saved the World by Paul Shipton
Grk and the Pelotti Gang by Joshua Doder

The Last Polar Bears by Harry Horse
Tiger, Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks
The Enchanted Horse by Magdalen Nabb

The brilliant Michael Morpurgo has written a series of books where animals play a central role – try The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Butterfly Lion and Why the Whales Came

Last updated on August 12, 2007