Chopper Rescue

Stories and activities for mentoring and guided writing

edited and selected by Hazel Edwards

An anthology of 13 short stories, by both new and well-known authors, plus student activities, aimed at encouraging and mentoring the writing of students in years 5–8.

Features

• A range of adventurous subjects, formats, lengths, styles and types of humour likely to interest the potential year 5–8 readership and initiate modelling for classroom activities.
• Includes vital hints illustrating the creative process, including notes on where the ideas for the stories came from.
• Each author has provided their tips for writing, and there is a ‘behind and beyond-the-story’ section after each story.
• Writing tasks for students are inspired by the stories.
• Ideas for mentoring young writers.
• A scope and sequence grid relating each story to the National Assessment program Guidelines for writing criteria plus additional mentoring tips will be available on the Teaching Solutions website.