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  1. Writing Skills

    Narration - the voice that tells the story, either first person (I/me) or third person (he/him/she/her). This needs to have the effect of interesting your reader in the story with a warm and ...

  2. How to plan and draft your writing for KS3 English students

    Key tips for a fast first draft: Develop a good plan that identifies the purpose of your task. Follow the plan without editing it as you go. Tick off the items in your plan as you write. Ensure ...

  3. Creative writing tips for KS3-4 English

    Creative writing tips. This helpful checklist or set of tips guides KS3-4 students through some of the fundamental elements of creative writing, including careful planning, as well as how to start and end a story. There is also guidance on how to use flashbacks and 'zooming in' to make their story more engaging for the reader.

  4. Creative writing

    Creative writing. Browse this rich collection of English teaching resources, teaching ideas, templates and creative writing lessons to develop students' descriptive writing, narrative writing and creative writing skills. You'll find compelling picture prompts, supportive word banks and carefully scaffolded resources to engage even the most ...

  5. KS3 Creative writing tasks

    Task 3: Describe the image using a sentence that starts with an adverb. e.g. Angrily, she raised her sword. Task 4: Describe this image using your senses. e.g. The sunlight touched her face, warming her. Five fun sets of image-inspired creative writing activities for use in class or for homework to build students' descriptive writing and SPaG ...

  6. Creative Writing For KS3: A Technique Guide

    There are eight chapters to the book, each dedicated to a particular type of extended writing. The first four cover creative fiction writing and the second four cover different styles of non-fiction writing to persuade/inform: 1. Creative writing from verbal prompt (story telling) 2. Creative writing from verbal prompt (something that happened ...

  7. Creative Writing: A Technique Guide for KS3

    By showcasing an exemplar for all eight types of creative writing task a student might come across, and pairing it with in-depth commentary that discusses not just the techniques, but also the art of weaving everything together, this new guide from Accolade Press seeks to demystify creative writing at Key Stage Three. Tasks covered include:

  8. KS3 Creative Writing Practice + Techniques

    KS3 Creative Writing Practice + Techniques. Subject: English. Age range: 7-11. Resource type: Worksheet/Activity. File previews. pdf, 587.97 KB. ppt, 1.7 MB. This resource contains a lengthy Powerpoint which covers a full range of techniques which should be considered when writing creatively. The Powerpoint ends with an assessment title, and ...

  9. Creative Writing Tasks for KS3 Students

    Subject: Creative writing. Age range: 11-14. Resource type: Worksheet/Activity. File previews. ppt, 11.01 MB. ppt, 9.86 MB. ppt, 10.62 MB. You can find 48 creative writing tasks with picture prompts in these ppts. Unlike technical, academic, and other forms of writing, creative writing fosters imagination and allows students to have a voice.

  10. Activities on Creative Writing for Year 8 / Year 7 KS3

    KS3/Year 8 English Writing Test Papers. 4.8 (41 reviews) The Lost City: Picture Stimulus Lesson Pack. 5.0 (2 reviews) Narrative Writing Lesson Pack 4: Ways of Opening a Story. 4.8 (23 reviews) Alternate Ending - Narrative Writing Activity. 5.0 (1 review) Narrative Writing Lesson Pack 1: Introduction to Genre.

  11. KS3 English

    A direct comparison of two different things. A comparison using 'like' or 'as'. A story with a hidden moral. Author: Graeme Haw. English Play this quiz again. Test and improve your knowledge on creative writing with this interactive quiz. Perfect for KS3 students studying English!

  12. Writing skills for KS3 and GCSE English

    Writing skills. Our dedicated writing skills resources will help KS3 and GCSE students to develop a variety of writing skills, including fiction and non-fiction writing, and a range of writing techniques. Browse our resource collections below, or search for resources to suit the needs of your class.

  13. Lesson Plan: KS3 English, creative writing

    Creative writing in the gothic genre - spooky stories - offers a wonderful opportunity for just this. This is a topic that always manages to enthuse pupils and one of the most exciting aspects is that the outcome is completely different with every group. Giving students time for thinking and the creation of ideas is essential.

  14. KS3 Creative Writing SOW

    A two week SOW for KS3 (used with middle ability Year 8 classes). Tasks mainly focussed on developing descriptive writing skills. Includes challenge tasks throughout. Includes story creator where students lucky dip a story title, setting etc to stimulate writing. Ended unit with the challenges lesson, allowing students to play with creative ...

  15. Teaching ideas for creative writing

    20 teaching ideas for creative writing. Writing for purpose and audience: Writing narrative texts. Twenty dynamic ideas to kick-start your students' creative writing. These teaching ideas are great for lessons when your creativity is flagging! The ideas include using a range of prompts (photos, works of art, music, nursery rhymes, memories ...

  16. PDF Year 9 Language and Creative Writing Workbook

    This booklet is to support your creative writing practice in preparation for your GCSE Language exam. There are two papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2. In Paper 1, the last ques-tion is 40 marks. It will ask you to write either a description as suggested from a picture, or a short story. 24 of these marks are for the ideas you put on the page. 16 of these

  17. 8 Tips for Getting Started With Creative Writing

    5. Read, read, read. It's a lot harder to get the hang of creative writing if you don't have any references from which to draw. Notable writers throughout history have penned excellent examples of well-written creative work that should be required reading for any budding creative writer.

  18. KS3 & 4 Student Creative Writing Checklist

    doc, 294 KB. I use this checklist with KS3 and KS4. It's an effective tool to help students focus on the basic components of effective creative writing. It incorporates the principles of Assessment for Learning with an emphasis on self and peer evaluation. The 'Y' column stands for 'You' ( the student), the 'P' column stands for 'Peer'.

  19. Developing sentence structure Creative Writing KS3 or KS4

    pptx, 27.79 MB. A useful lesson for KS3 or KS4 on how to develop sentence structure in creative writing. Using different settings as a way in and inspiration students can develop sentence structure whilst also developing skills needed for Paper 1 Section B writing for AQA (with a picture prompt). If you find this useful please leave me a review ...

  20. ks3 Creative writing lesson

    Subject: English. Age range: 7-11. Resource type: Lesson (complete) File previews. pptm, 1.96 MB. A fun and simple lesson to get your KS3 Pupils into their creative zone. Creative Commons "Sharealike".