Just Write – EMC Let Them Loose (Hard copy workbook)

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EMC’s Just Write project captured the imagination and enthusiasm of 1000s of young writers and their teachers.

This beautifully-illustrated student workbook for Year 7 offers 44 writing activities drawing on the principles of creativity, freedom and choice. 

From speeches to poems, playscripts to novel openings, this is a workbook both to harness pupils’ enthusiasm for writing and to develop their writing ‘muscles’!

Just Write: Non-fiction

1. Would you rather…
2.  It makes me so angry!
3. I’d like to thank…
4. Opposite day
5. If I were prime minister
6. The Survivor’s Handbook
7. If I ruled the school
8. All in a good cause

Just Write: Fiction

9. Picture this
10. The random problem generator
11. A writer’s advice
12. Alien invasion
13. Picture prompt

Just Write: From Life

14. Let’s get personal
15. Future you
16. What’s in a name?
17. My life as an animal
18. True stories
19.  In my own words – literally
20. A different view

Just Write: Poetry

21. Reasons to be cheerful
22. Borrowing from a text
23. First to last
24. A recipe for disaster
25. A new favourite song

Just Write: Drama

26. An interesting question
27. Two characters meet
28. What happened in the wings?
29. Opening scene

Just Write: Inspired by a Novel

30. A different ending
31. Put yourself in the book
32. The two-minute pitch
33. Play the game
34. Go graphic
35. Interview with a writer   

Just Write: Your Own Way

36. Writing from fragments
37. Three answers
38. A lipogram in ‘e’
39. A dramatic event
40. A different purpose
41. Change the genre
42. I live here
43. Write to the end
44. About the author