Click to enlargeSettings & Characters: Model Descriptions
Ten short model paragraphs to read, learn and adapt: five settings and five characters.
- Five model settings: forest, city, sea storm, desert, beach
- Five model characters: old, young, good, bad, inspiring
- Short enough to learn, rich enough to adapt
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How this book is used in our course
Read one model aloud each day and underline the images worth borrowing. Then close the book and write your own version of the same setting or character, using the Book 3 blueprint. Use the models as a second voice alongside Book 3.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 3, Settings & Characters
- Next book in the series: Book 5, 6-Minute Drills
What's inside Creative Writing Mastery 4
Two real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 3 sample pages are in the viewer.
Five model settings to read aloud, learn and adapt: forest, city, sea storm, desert and beach.
"The city buzzed with tireless energy, a place that never truly slept." Each model paragraph uses the senses, imagery and sentence variety the course teaches, so a child hears what a finished setting sounds like before writing their own. Short, dense and ready to borrow from.
Five model characters to match: old, young, good, bad and inspiring.
"His face is a parchment map of laughter and loss, each wrinkle a path to a story long lived." Each character paragraph shows a person from the inside out in a handful of sentences. Use them alongside Book 3 as a second set of models, and as a bank of images to adapt.
Every model description in the book follows the pattern shown here.
Other Year 4 & 5 books in Creative Writing Mastery
The Technique Booklet
The complete Writing Formula in more than 380 pages: plan in five minutes, write four paragraphs, check your own work, then every other kind of task.
Your Writing Toolkit
Every checklist, every mistake to avoid, the glossary and seven templates, open beside every piece of writing.
Settings & Characters
The scholarship groundwork: five annotated model settings, two bonus settings and five model characters, each with the blueprint behind it.
6-Minute Drills
Every setting and character written against the clock, marked out of 10, then redrafted to scholarship standard.