The Author's Apprentice - a Narrative Writing Toolkit, Teacher Guide and Worksheets for students aged 7 - 9 years, is a class photocopiable book for teachers, designed to assist student writing by guiding them through the tools narrative authors use to write powerfully and effectively. The information contained on the pages is gathered from over ten years of writing, professionally editing authors' work, and reviewing books for publishing houses.

To use the book, you can either go in order of the pages, or choose the pages you would like to focus on for particular lessons. You can photocopy all of the student work pages and create a booklet, or just photocopy the pages that are relevant to your class and their needs.

On the left side of each of the double page spread of this teacher guide are:

* Objectives - Learning objectives for each work page, as well as general teaching objectives.

* Discuss - Discussion points have been added to enhance, and/or deepen learning and

understanding of the content/concepts/focussed topics.

* Activities - There are suggested activities on the teacher guide pages. You may add activities

that suit your class dynamics, or, if extra knowledge and understandings are needed.

This sort-after teacher resource is a must-have to enhance student understanding and outcomes with narrative writing.