How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games designed to warm up creativity & strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops based on the writers own experience both as a teacher & poet running workshops in schools. These workshops focus on growing the roots of story writing through story telling & reading & begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama role-play & art & a few model stories are provided for story telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children & demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic creative & imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework. Workshops include the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug stuff & nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; & cooking the story soup.