Adventure Stories (KS2, KS3) Creative Writing Lessons x4 and Worksheets

Four creative writing lessons and planning worksheets on the theme of ‘Adventure’.
Suitable for KS2 and KS3 students.

I used these series of lessons to help students prepare for an extended piece of imaginative writing.

Each lesson follows the same format:

• 1. Show an image and ask students to jot down their initial impressions and what they can see. Pair and Share their ideas.

• 2 Individually, students choose a number between 1-10. Each number corresponds to a character they must write as.

• 3 Then students choose a second number between 1-5. Each number corresponds to what they must write about.

• 4 Students are given a planning sheet and must spend time deciding key components of their writing- plot/character/setting

• 5 For the rest of the lesson (or as a homework task) they must complete an extended piece of adventure writing.

• 6 Peer assessment- students swap and read another piece of work. They must comment on the things that went well and the specific marking criteria.