Inspired with Great Expectations!

One of the reasons students find themselves lacking inspiration when it comes to writing, is that reading quality literature is not so popular today.  But I find in my tuition that children really enjoy the classics when they are introduced in the right way.

Great Expectations is a book I use with many of my tutees because it has such a dramatic beginning.  Here is the situation:

A little boy is in a dark churchyard, thinking about his family, most of whom are dead, when suddenly a man appears from nowhere and demands that the boy must bring him food.

Children love to borrow the plots of good stories, and sometimes my students will even use this as a basis for their own story.

A good example is Sara's story (she is in Year 5), which I published recently, and which you can read here.

My ebook But I'm No Good At Creative Writing helps students improve their narrative writing, an essential skill for doing well at GCSE English Language.  It's available on Amazon here, and you can find out more about the Hartland English Guides, my other ebooks, here.