Students entering high school require effective writing skills and im aginative ability. Excel Basic Skills: Creative Writing Years 5-6 provides an accessible and enjoyable means of developing story writing ability. It covers the main features of story writing such as d eveloping ideas, creating a narrative and writing descriptions and dialo gue. There is plenty of practical advice on the craft of story writing a nd pointers for future development. In this book your child will find: self-contained units of work with scores of examples, writing tips, reading tasks and exercises techniques to help t hem improve their story writing - Sample answers to all questions sample answers to all questions easy-to-read format that mak es writing fun This book is a practical guide to writing f iction (narratives and stories). It presents the various skills required to write better fiction, showing you ways to make your writing more app ealing and more interesting. The different writing skills are introduced in turn, with some explanation or a quick revision of the practical kno wledge you will need to implement the skill. Where ever practical, extra cts from published stories have been included to show you 'How It Has Be en Done'.