Christopher Youles

Oct 1, 2024 | bloomsbury.com | Christopher Youles |Sarah J. Maas |Jesmyn Ward |Gillian Anderson

‘Today in class, I will teach you how to build a car. Here is a photograph of a car. These are the wheels. This is the engine. Here are the headlamps. These are all the other parts you need to build the car. Now I want you to build the car.’ My class stare at me blankly. A few who want to please me pick up a gear stick and a wing mirror and begin to sticky tape them together. Some tell me they hate building cars. Two car enthusiasts eagerly start building but soon become stuck.

Jul 2, 2023 | schoolsweek.co.uk | Christopher Youles

Freelance edtech writer and publisher of the Eclecticism newsletter 2 Jul 2023, 5:00 Book The Review: Sentence models for creative writing By Christopher Youles

May 5, 2023 | johncattbookshop.com | Christopher Youles

Product Description Teaching at sentence level is essential to improve writing. Knowing this, I desperately searched for a book packed full of sentence models that I could use to inspire my students. On discovering that no such book existed, I spent the next year poring over hundreds and hundreds of books to tap into the magic formula of what makes a great sentence.