Just Write – EMC Let Them Loose (Hard copy workbook)

Over the last three years EMC’s Just Write has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of 1000s of young writers and their teachers.

This beautifully-illustrated student workbook for Year 7 offers 44 writing activities drawing on the principles of creativity, freedom and choice. 

From speeches to poems, playscripts to novel openings, this is a workbook both to harness pupils’ enthusiasm for writing and to develop their writing ‘muscles’!

Just Write: Non-fiction

1. Would you rather…
2.  It makes me so angry!
3. I’d like to thank…
4. Opposite day
5. If I were prime minister
6. The Survivor’s Handbook
7. If I ruled the school
8. All in a good cause

Just Write: Fiction

9. Picture this
10. The random problem generator
11. A writer’s advice
12. Alien invasion
13. Picture prompt

Just Write: From Life

14. Let’s get personal
15. Future you
16. What’s in a name?
17. My life as an animal
18. True stories
19.  In my own words – literally
20. A different view

Just Write: Poetry

21. Reasons to be cheerful
22. Borrowing from a text
23. First to last
24. A recipe for disaster
25. A new favourite song

Just Write: Drama

26. An interesting question
27. Two characters meet
28. What happened in the wings?
29. Opening scene

Just Write: Inspired by a Novel

30. A different ending
31. Put yourself in the book
32. The two-minute pitch
33. Play the game
34. Go graphic
35. Interview with a writer   

Just Write: Your Own Way

36. Writing from fragments
37. Three answers
38. A lipogram in ‘e’
39. A dramatic event
40. A different purpose
41. Change the genre
42. I live here
43. Write to the end
44. About the author