The ideas, practical advice and lesson plans in Able Writers in Your School will help you to develop the potential of the gifted and talented pupils in your primary school – and all the other pupils as well. Suggestions for poetry range from taking an idea and stretching it, making the familiar scary an dealing with serious issues. The chapters on prose include creating a realistic character, building conflict, looking at point of view and developing dialogue. Over 70 inspirational examples of children's work show the standard of children's work achievable.