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• The Best Creative Writing Resources For Teaching Plot And Setting In Ks3 English

KS3 creative writing – Resources for teaching plot and setting

Whether students want to create an epic adventure in a fiery inferno or tense tale in a sleepy town, make sure they create a compelling plot and a fully realised setting with these resources…

Unlock the full potential of your students’ creative writing with these top-tier resources for teaching plot and setting, designed specifically for KS3 English teachers…

KS3 creative writing resources

How to teach world building, storyboard templates.

Whether it’s short stories, comic strips or filmmaking, every tale needs the right structure to be told well. Having a beginning, middle and end may be a staple of storytelling , but alone it’s not enough, and there are many ways to tell a story.

But however you choose to write yours, one thing is constant – good stories need good structure. These storyboard template resources and activities will help your students develop the skills required to add that foundation to their creative writing.

Year 7 English worksheets

Get to grips with descriptive writing across two lessons with these free Year 7 English worksheets which focus on a piece of text all about the jungle.

Inspiring images and sticky notes

This creative writing KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing.

The collaborative nature of this lesson (students read what the person before them has written) means they learn from and inspire each other.

Create a spooky atmosphere

This Gothic setting description lesson plan will encourage students to take their creative writing to a whole new level. Start by closing the blinds, turning off the lights, playing spooky music and displaying an image on the whiteboard of an old, decrepit, haunted-looking house.

Setting description examples

Use this  setting description resource pack to help pupils refine their descriptive writing skills. The pack contains an extract from Finding Bear by Hannah Gold, as well as worksheets, teacher notes and more.

KS3 structure lesson plan

Structure may not seem like the most riveting subject, but for exam success students need to be taught how to employ structure for effect in their own writing and analyse the effects of it in the work of others.

Start this lesson by choping up a fiction text into paragraphs for students to sort into the correct order.

Writing the middle part of stories

This fully differentiated and resourced lesson will help students with writing the middles of narratives and stories. This is excellent preparation for GCSE writing exams.

Monster consequences descriptive writing lesson

Use this descriptive writing KS3 lesson to show students the potentially hilarious consequences of timid and imprecise description. It just might have a remarkable impact on subsequent writing…

Describe a sweet shop

This free resource will engage more advanced students in Key Stage 3. It focuses on crafting vivid descriptions of a sweet shop. This is a topic ripe with potential for rich, sensory language and imaginative exploration.

Descriptive dystopian writing lesson plan

This KS3 critical writing lesson starts with a clip from 2009 post-apocalyptic film  The Road . Feed back through class discussion about how the film creates a dystopian world. Which words would students use to do this in their own writing?

Use The Hobbit to write about tunnels

In this ‘build your own adventure story’ resource students discover new lands, and overcome monsters and other obstacles.

It begins with a passage from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit , where Bilbo finds himself in a dark cave and meets Gollum for the first time. There are 10 pointers to look at to explore the passage, before students begin to write their own story.

The place as character

This interactive resource from Eduqas offers an opening paragraph example of a story that creates a real sense of setting.

Students should read through and identify the adjectives used to develop the atmosphere of the place being described.

The second section is where they give it a go themselves, writing out a descriptive passage about a place. There are lists of adjectives they can click on to insert them into the story should they get stuck for inspiration.

Model texts for settings

If you’re after example texts for different settings then head to Literary Wagoll where you’ll find descriptions of an alien world, a fairground, a tree house, a thunderstorm and various others.

Plot advice

This post features an excerpt from the book What’s the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing , and builds on the idea of what a plot is.

It also includes a short list of traditional plot types, and tips for building a compelling plot, like using momentum, creating stakes and giving the characters goals and motives.

Award-winning author Frances Hardinge unpacks how to teach a much sought-after skill in modern storytelling – that of world-building…

When world-building, it’s easy to be distracted by questions of what, who and where, and the temptation to fill your imaginary landscape with creatures, people and places that grab the mind’s eye.

The important part is remembering to work through the  how ,  why  and  where . Why do any of these things exist, and how do they continue to exist?

Answering such questions can be time-consuming and fiddly, but the answers can often generate plot, detail and unique features for the setting so that it feels more solid.

If you leave them unanswered, then those big, shiny ‘cool’ elements of your setting will tend to feel shallow, like set dressing.

Splendid mayhem of world building

When running a ‘settings workshop’ for a full class (Y6 to Y8) I’ll sometimes encourage everyone to brainstorm the what, who and where first.

I’ll describe a storm at sea, and a ship being wrecked on a rocky shore. I then tell the students that nearly everybody on board has drowned, and that there’s only one survivor – me.

I recover consciousness, and begin looking around to discover where I am. And they’re going to tell me what I encounter.

I start by asking them what I’m lying on. What does it feel like? (At this point, someone may timidly suggest ‘sand’.)

I’ll then tell them that I’m opening my eyes, sitting up and looking around. What can I see?

Initially,  the responses will be a little cautious  – but before long, the class realises they have an adult character who they can chase around an imaginary landscape, and who will yelp with panic when subjected to countless perils.

They also realise that I won’t block any of their ideas, including all the ‘silly’ ones. At this point, splendid mayhem tends to break loose.

Note, this is not an engine for producing a grim, grittily serious setting. The results tend to be anarchic, enthusiastic, varied and frequently very funny, but in a way that generally gets the whole class engaged.

At a certain point (usually with some difficulty), I’ll call a halt to the brainstorming and get everyone to consider those how, when and why questions.

I’ll encourage them to come up with reasons for such bizarre phenomena coexisting in the same setting and invent a history. It will likely be a strange and amusing history, but that’s not necessarily a problem.

Fates of quirks

Alternatively, one could approach the world-building process from another direction entirely. I’m used to starting from bizarre premises myself, before trying to work out how they will affect the setting.

In effect, I’m starting with those  how ,  when  and  why  questions to help me work out the answers to  what ,  who  and  where .

To use this approach, a class could be broken up into small groups, each of which is tasked with brainstorming a different country.

Each group can choose a ‘quirk’ – some bizarre characteristic of this world that makes it appreciably different from our own. The students can either come up with their own suggestions, or pick out a single option from a pre-prepared list.

The groups can also be given a list of further questions to consider when fleshing out their worlds and deciding how their chosen quirk has affected everything in that particular country.

Some good sample questions here might include:

• When did the quirk begin? Has it always been there?
• Why does it exist? If nobody knows, why do people think it exists?
• How has it changed people’s beliefs and their behaviour?
• How has it affected the country’s history? Has it resulted in any new conflicts, religions, inventions, laws, jobs or crimes?
• What else is this country like? How advanced is the technology? What is the landscape like? In what other ways is it ‘weird?’
• If you were to visit the country, what odd things would you notice due to its peculiar history?

Quirks to explore

The following examples show how a single quirk can affect a whole setting’s history. Try exploring these ideas in class:

• Cats can use human speech.
• Instead of electricity, the setting has a power source that works in much the same way – except that you age twice as fast while using it.
• In this country, dreams are always distorted visions of something real that’s happening somewhere else at that exact moment.
• 1 in 10 children can teleport a few feet by the time they hit puberty. Most children have no control over it.
• The possession or use of clocks is strictly illegal.

Frances Hardinge is an award-winning children’s author. Her 11th novel,  Island of Whis p ers  (with illustrations by Emily Gravett), is available now. Browse English games KS3 ideas and more creative writing prompts .

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Kostanay is the center of the region of the same name. The city lies n the Trans-Urals, on the outskirts of Western Siberia. The city is located in the steppe zone, in the northern part of the Turgai plateau, on the Tobol river, five hundred and seventy kilometers from Astana . Geographically closest big city with a population of over one million is Chelyabinsk in Russia, located at a distance of two hundred and sixty kilometers in the northwest direction. 

Kostanai Region is the westernmost of the three regions making Kazakhstan’s northern head, is a significant hub of wheat production, and a number of key mineral resources, particularly iron ore, asbestos, and bauxite. Its regional capital, Kostanai, is a charming provincial city on the banks of the River Tobol.

Today Kostanai holds many attractive red-brick buildings from the Tsarist period. The evacuation of factories to Kostanai during World War II, and the city’s post-war role as one of the hubs of the Virgin Lands Campaign, further promoted its development.  After weathering the difficult post-independence years, the city represents much-renewed development, exemplified by the pedestrianized center, vibrant on warm summer evenings. 

Kostanay history

Kostanai was found in 1879 by Russians during the Tsarist-era and received the name by Nikolaevsk in honor of Tsar Nicholas the Second. The first settlers came from Orenburg in the summer of the same year. Within the next 10 years, the inhabitants increase to 3000 who were involved in the building mill and factory jobs. Consequently, the town grows like a mushroom. In 1895 the town received a new name Kustanay. By 1911 Kustanai’s population become more than 25,000. Due to the strategic significant location, the trade was the main activity of the town.  Following the regions iron and bauxite ore reserves begun up near Rudniy and Kostanay became the center for the region’s expansive mining development. In the vast mines of Sokolov-Sarbay iron ore is mined in open pits. Kaolin, titanium, zirconium, gold and brown coal are also exploited in the Kostanay area. 

During the 1950s, the vast surrounding area of  Kostanay was developed into the wheat as well as other agriculture. Due to agriculture, large food- processing operational factories were established in the city’s industrial economy. Yet today, the region is s highly developed and prosperous in terms of its development of culture, sport and tourism.

Kostanay Sights

Kostanay holds a variety of red-brick buildings from the Tsarist period. Some beautiful buildings from the time of its foundation have been preserved in the town center like Russian Drama Theatre he university and some administrative offices located between the railway station and the river.  Moreover, you can visit the stunning old Maral Ichana mosque and the Russian Orthodox cathedral. The city is green and peaceful, you can check out local cafes and restaurants as well as local colorful bazaars and museum. 

Kostanay Regional Museum of History

The museum situated in the two-story building, was built in Tsarist times by a local merchant and server later as a department store.  The museum contains thousands of collections of the rarest artifacts brought from different parts of the region, including items from the bronze age, unique photographic materials, jewelry, musical instruments, archaeological finds, collections of coins and weapons and other relics of various times. Today there are over 107 000 exhibits, but the information is mainly in Kazakh and Russian only. For more information you can visit their official website . 

Museum of Military Equipment

Open-air military equipment museum was opened in 2013 for the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. It is the only museum of real military equipment in the Republic and it is located in the territory of Victory Park. The museum offers 14 actual samples of military equipment since the Great Patriotic and Civil Wars and the postwar period. Among them are the legendary T-34 tank, the Katyusha artillery installation and various armored vehicles from different years. 

Travel to Kostanay

There are daily flight from Astana to Kostanaly by Air Astana and five times a week from Almaty by SCAT airlines.  Besides, Aeroflot  operates three times a week from Moscow. 

Kostanay airport is located beyond the western edge of the city. 

Daily trains from Astana and Almaty as well as from Karaganda Karaganda and several times from Uralsk, Atyrau and Chelyabinsk, Russia. You can check and purchase ticket through the official website

The railway lies on the northwestern edge of the city center at the end of the main Al-Farabi Avenue. 

Bus / Minibus / Taxi

There are daily busses and minibuses as well as taxis to the nearest town in the region as well as to Petropavl and several departures to Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg in Russia. 

The bus station located at the southern edge of the town. 

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Kostanay Region • Kazakhstan

Kostanay is a large city in the northern part of Kazakhstan and the administrative center of the Kostanay region. The city has a rich history and is one of the important industrial and cultural centers of the region.

Historical overview: Kostanay was founded in the 19th century as a Kazakh fortress on the border of the Russian Empire. Over time, the city began to develop due to its position at the crossroads of trade routes and the rich natural resources of the region.

Industry: Kostanay is an important industrial center of Kazakhstan. The city has developed mechanical engineering, the chemical industry, the production of building materials and the food industry. Kostanay is also famous for its mining, including coal, iron ore and gold.

Culture and education: There are many cultural and educational institutions in Kostanay. The city has theatres, museums, cinemas, concert halls, as well as universities and colleges. The Kostanay Regional Philharmonic and other cultural institutions are actively developing the cultural life of the city.

Nature and recreation: Picturesque natural landscapes stretch around Kostanay. Near the city there are parks, forests and rivers where you can spend time in nature, play sports and relax from the bustle of the city.

Transport: Kostanay is well connected to other regions of Kazakhstan and neighboring countries. The city has a railway station, bus and highway routes, as well as an airport providing air connections with other cities and countries.

Kostanay is a city with a rich history that combines industrial potential, cultural heritage and natural beauty. The city offers a wide range of opportunities for living, working, education and recreation, making it an important and interesting place on the map of Kazakhstan.

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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 reluctant of student writers.

There are fun and eclectic lesson ideas, downloadable worksheets and comprehensive PowerPoints for a range of exciting creative writing and short story tasks based on journeys, the senses, on sculpture, on the weather and even 'magical doors'!

Explore point of view, narrative structure and the features of a ‘good story’ as well as how to develop a main character with a range of creative writing tasks to hone students’ descriptive writing skills. You’ll also find resources on using metaphors and similes and varying sentence structure to make their writing more engaging.

Perfect for key stage 3 English classes and GCSE English Language learners. 

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Subject: English

Age range: 11-14

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