How to Make a Storybook

An instruction text about planning, editing and illustrating stories.

Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children books, gives a masterclass on writing and illustrating your own storybook . This is an instructional book with a difference, which takes young readers step by step through the writing process from first ideas to editing to illustrating and finally compiling their very own picture book.

Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children books, gives a masterclass on writing and illustrating your own storybook . This is an instructional book with a difference, which takes young readers step by step through the writing process from first ideas to editing to illustrating and finally compiling their very own picture book.

• Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.
• Text type – An instruction text.
• A flow chart on pages 22 and 23 shows the eight stages described in the book, from ideas to enjoying your story with other readers.
• Curriculum links – DT: Making a storybook; ICT: Writing stories; communicating information using text.
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
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