'Cluedo' Creative Writing Lesson

An adaptable PowerPoint presentation to inspire, engage and prompt creative writing for students and further lessons for teachers. Based on the board game Cluedo, this relatively succinct presentation can be used as it is or can be split into a series of lessons to help students understand and develop characterisation, tense changes, plot and so forth.

I have used this with Year 10 students with great success as it helped them focus on the basics of their plot, setting and characters; enabling them to sustain their writing for the duration of the lesson.

Students can be guided to write their story using Nick Wells’ Drop, Shift, Zoom, Leave method as outlined in the slides. Teachers can have fun and develop the sense of mystery with their students by developing the board game idea and have them choose their characters, setting and weapons at random.

I have also included apt music for writing in the footnotes to give your classroom an eerie atmosphere, should you choose.