11+ Essentials Creative Writing Examples Book 1 (First Past the Post)

If the intention is to teach your child about creative writing and you have a lot of time (say months), maybe there could be better or more comprehensive books available in the market that can be covered in detail over a period of time. However, if you need to give your child a quick dose of writing techniques, checklist of things to take care of, things to avoid, what would fetch more marks etc, then this is the book for you ... just don't look any further. It has examples for all the main types of creative writing types (essays, letters, reviews etc). The examples are written by students and teachers feedback is provided. My child passed stage 2 of Surrey grammar schools with 8 days of writing tasks with this book (we didn't prepare him for Surrey Stage-2 earlier as our top priority schools are elsewhere, and Surrey test was kept as a backup). If your child is generally good at English grammar, punctuation and spellings then just a couple of weeks spent with this book will take their creative writing levels significantly higher.

My daughter learnt from it and passed her 11+ exam, with excellent writing skills, no private tutor but guide her through with this book!

I bought this book for my daughter who would be attending 11+ exam and she likes this book very much and told me there are a lot of excellent examples to follow. I am glad she likes this and i can see her writing skills improves a lot.

A really great, easy-to follow resource for creative writing for kids; especially if you have limited time. I bought the Bond Focus Writing book but returned it as it was a bit complex and so boring. This one is more fun and I believe children preparing for the 11 plus will gain a better understanding from it. I wish I got this before my son took his 11 Plus exams; however, he has an independent school exam so we are now using this book to prepare for that.

These examples are useful to give children an idea of how to evaluate their own work by the evil examiner checklists!

Pricy but lot of things for education

Brilliant examples to inspire your child with writing with different requirements

I was looking for an 11+ creative writing workbook, this was recommended. It was helpful but as implied by the title is more about examples than a work book not not really what I was looking for.