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Creative and descriptive writing
Resources for KS3, KS4 and upper secondary
Let your students’ creativity run wild with our selection of worksheets, lessons, exam questions and revision activities, designed to embed language techniques and improve crafted writing.
Lessons and activities
Creative and descriptive writing is a great opportunity for students to explore different themes, audiences and purposes as well as demonstrate their understanding of how structure and punctuation can be used to impact a reader. From creative writing prompts to technique booklets and descriptive writing planning mats, we have drawn together a small collection of resources you can use to help with your planning of this unit.
Descriptive / Creative Writing
Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing
Descriptive Writing Task
AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Descriptive Writing
Crafting creative writing - AQA English Language Paper 1, Question 5
Creative/ Descriptive Writing Placemat: Image Prompt: Structure Strips
Structuring and Organising Creative Writing
Descriptive Writing
Gothic Horror Creative Writing Lesson
24 creative writing prompts
Places - Creative & Descriptive Writing - English Language GCSE
FREE LESSON creative writing AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5
Descriptive writing booklet
Key learning and revision.
To help your students practise crafting their creative pieces, we have pulled together a selection of resources from structure strips to exam questions to support your students when tackling such a large part of the English language exam.
AQA English Language Paper 1: Question 5 Examples
English Language Paper One Question Five Revision & Exam Practice Questions
Descriptive writing structure strips
AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet
Language Paper 1: Question 5 Creative Writing
Planning a Descriptive Response to AQA English Paper 1, Question 5
Drop, Shift, Zoom, Leave Examples for Paper 1 Question 5
Gcse revision resources.
Support your students in the run-up to May with this bumper collection of GCSE revision English language and English literature revision resources.
Teacher essentials
Explore this collection of essential resources including starter and plenary activities, templates, marking and feedback tools and more.
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Creative writing pack
A versatile KS4 pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing. The pack includes essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling 'problem' areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts. Practical support to inspire your students.
What's included?
- KS4 curriculum assessment objective map
- lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources.
What's inside?
Introduction (page 1)
- Summary of pack
Getting students started (page 2)
Generating an idea for a story (page 3)
Tenses (page 4)
Narrative point of view page 4-5)
Varying sentences (page 6)
Improving vocabulary and descriptions (pages 7-8)
Conflict (page 9)
Beginnings (page 10)
Plans and planning (page 10)
Resources (pages 11-83)
- Law and order in Britannica
- Packing your bag
- Encounter with Gromitz’ spy
- Getting across to Tongwe Island
- Extract from Beast Quest – Krabb, Master of the Sea, by Adam Blade
- How to have TipTop paragraphing skills
- Diary Openings
- Dead Trial by Matthew Green
- An Active Imagination by Virginia E. Zimmer
This is a sample student activity from the KS4 Creative Writing pack:
When writing one way of making sure that your work is interesting and engaging is to vary your sentence lengths. This activity is a fun way of practising this skill.
1. Write down your mobile phone number. If there are any zeros in it then change these to any number of your choice between 1 and 9. If you don’t have a mobile phone, use your home phone number.
2. Choose one of the following titles:
Christmas The Mistake Theft Loneliness
3. Select one of the following genres:
Horror Fantasy Romance Comedy
4. Write a paragraph for your selected title and genre making sure that the number of words in your sentences follows the pattern of your telephone number. For example, if your telephone number is 447798146372, then the first sentence must contain 4 words only, the second also 4 words, the third seven words etc.
Writing under these artificial constraints will help you to focus on sentence structure. It will also demonstrate to you how varying sentence length can make your writing more interesting and can also change the mood and dramatic impact of your writing.
Writing plan
Before you start writing your paragraph, sketch out a brief plan on the following page.
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You can find 45 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.
Resources for KS3, KS4 and upper secondary. Let your students’ creativity run wild with our selection of worksheets, lessons, exam questions and revision activities, designed to embed language techniques and improve crafted writing.
This KS4 pack offers some structured approaches for the teaching of creative writing. Along with a variety of teaching ideas, it includes student-facing resources (some of which were specifically commissioned for the purposes of this pack) and suggestions for differentiation. The activities and ideas will help students to prepare for and plan their
A versatile KS4 pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing. The pack includes essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling 'problem' areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts. Practical support to inspire your students.
Revise and recap descriptive writing with KS4 classes using this stand alone lesson pack which guides students through various techniques, building up to a piece of original writing.
These activities are about getting students to explore their imagination and become more confident writers. Give students scenarios or sentence starters that they have to extend into a short narrative.