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Download the Everybody Writes guide for Primary Schools for all the information you need to develop writing proejcts using the Everybody Writes principles: taking writing beyond the classroom, giving students direct experiences to write about, finding real audiences for students' writing, and exploring writing across the curriculum.

Download the Everybody Writes guide for Primary Schools for all the information you need to develop exciting writing projects, enthuse and motivate pupils to write, and to celebrate writing across the school.

Watch this short video for a useful introduction to the Everybody Writes approach, and how you could run an Everybody Writes project in your school or local authority.

This comprehensive list includes links to a range of organisations and websites that will help you plan a writing project.

Read about an Everybody Writes project in which Year 9 boys wrote about homelessness for a wikispace, inspired by a drama workshop. This case study is accompanied by a short film: http://youtu.be/TJqdqdd62iQ

Toby Jones, actor and writer, draws upon his experience in film and drama to create fun and inspirational writing games in this useful resource. Designed for secondary students, these activities will also be of interest to anyone looking for fun and inspiring creative writing activities.

With an emphasis on the playful and even the anarchic, these quick and easy activities created by actor and writer Toby Jones will help teachers and pupils at both primary and secondary level to free up their thinking as a precursor to writing. Although designed for use in the classroom or a workshop setting, they will be of interest to anyone looking for fun and stimulating creative writing exercises.

Playwright Rachel Barnett has developed some fun and dynamic workshop exercises to generate imaginative creative writing. These activities were designed for use with young people at Key Stage 3 and 4 but will be of interest to anyone interested in developing characters for creative writing.

Pie Corbett, author of many books promoting creative approaches in the classroom, uses games and quick-fire activities to 'jumpstart' writing. This comprehensive resource includes lots of examples of fun activities which are designed for use with both primary and secondary students, but which anyone looking to stimulate creative writing may find useful.

Quick-fire writing games and warm-up activities are a great way get your class excited about writing. These fun poetry and word games for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 were created by Mike Garry, a talented Mancunian poet who has worked in hundreds of schools and held residencies in prisons, hospitals and art galleries as well as being a librarian for many years.

Quick-fire writing games and warm-up activities are a great way get your class excited about writing. These fun rhyming writing games for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 are written by poet Andy Croft, who has worked in hundreds of schools.

Screenwriter and novelist Andrew Norriss offers teachers, students at Key Stage 4 and A Level, and anyone with an interest in writing a professional's insight into the process of redrafting an extended piece of writing.

These units of work aimed at Key Stage 2 will allow you to explore newspaper writing in the classroom. They are ideal for use as part of an Everybody Writes project.

Find out how New Milton Junior School and Broomwood School staged alien crash landings in their grounds to inspire pupils to write. These case studies are accompanied by a useful how-to-guide and lesson plans.

Find out about how children at Yenton Primary School created a wide variety of written and visual work using recorded music as a stimulus.  This case study is accompanied by a useful how-to guide.

This case study describes how Woodcote Primary School used a favourite book, an outdoor learning environment and a cross-curricular topic to inspire reluctant writers. The case study is accompanied by examples of work and a questionnaire used in the project.