THREAD:

An area that sometimes teachers struggle with is how to use a great book to inspire the children to write a great story. (1)

But that's often because we read the whole book and hope to translate this into a narrative or write something else. (2)

When instead, we want to mine the text to steal and borrow from the author's techniques and sentence construction. Let's look at 'Wild Boy' by Rob Lloyd Jones. (3)

Let's read it and study it at a word level thinking about audience and purpose. (4)

What do we notice? (5)

Now let's mine it for authorial technique, sentence construction and style and teach some of the ideas.(6)

Let's pick it apart and rebuild withe class, learning some of the techniques and structures. (7)

There's loads in here to look at. (8)

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We are still only on page 1 (10)

I think I've planned at least a weeks worth. (11)

I nicked this one from @MrTRoach (12)

Then we can get the children to have a go at writing an section that introduces a mysterious character using the same techniques! And in the rest of the prologue there's dialogue, character descriptions and load more that could be studied. (13)