Creative Writing Quote Posters (Kiran Millwood Hargrave)

These are quotes that I highlighted while reading various Kiran Millwood Hargrave books because I wanted to use them with my Year 5 class in order to aid their writing (especially greater depth), however, everyone benefited from them. This resource would work Year 5+ including secondary. Quotes are mostly descriptive and unedited.

They are extremely useful for setting and character descriptions, as well as inner voices of characters in narratives, which increases the quality of writing immensely. There are a couple of examples below.

This one is from our writing in response to Hamlet. We were writing a monologue as Hamlet to reflect his inner thoughts after he was told that his father had been murdered.

— As soon as my father’s ghost revealed the unfortunate news, my head was spinning. The threads of problems dangled in front of me, and I tried to think of a plan to weave them into a solution, so that I could prove that my uncle was a devious murderer. He wasn’t worthy of the sinful crown that he carried. —

This one below is from our work with ‘Macbeth’. It is a diary entry where Macbeth is talking about Lady Macbeth’s dark side.

— I never expected these evil thoughts to be injected in me by my wife! It is hard, isn’t it? Describing a person in words, when they can hold a whole different universe of wickedness in them! —

There are 11 posters in total. There are two A4 PDF versions of the same pages: one with colour background and the other is plain.

I attached some samples in the previews.