This accessible yet authoritative book considers and encourages flexible, playful and innovative practices in the teaching of writing, and shows how certain practices can develop children's creative and linguistic potential and their overall skill

Based upon the concepts and objectives of the National Literacy Strategy, this accessible and lively book combines creativity with skills teaching to stimulate and improve children's written work.

A study of creativity in the context of education, an issue of great importance for teachers and students alike. It considers just how creativity "works" and how it can be encouraged. The book has an international and an historical sweep, and features many examples.