The Cup Cake: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

By Sally Jones and Amanda Jones

The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style.
Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations. In this book, learn to write about cakes (including how to write a good recipe) and take some great ideas for writing fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guinea Pig Education
• Release date: Dec 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781907733499

Book preview

examinations.

First things first...

Let’s learn to write non-fiction.

When you write non-fiction, you may write:

an article

a leaflet

a diary

a description.

- A description may describe the way people look, dress, their character, attitudes and abilities.

- A description may describe the way a place looks.

- A description may describe the way something feels, tastes and smells.

You must decide:

Who will be my target audience?

Who will read this writing?

What is the purpose of my writing?

Am I aiming to give somebody a picture of something I have experienced?

Am I using my senses to impact the reader-seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, tasting?

Use imagery or figurative language:

Metaphors - ‘princely paper.’

Similes - ‘feeling like a princess.’

Personification - ‘the rustling paper whispers softly.’

Admirable adjectives and nouns - ‘mysterious parcel.’

Powerful verbs and adverbs - ‘rummage eagerly.’

When you write to describe:

PARAGRAPH 1

Write an introduction to set the scene.

Have a colourful opening to get the attention of the