Creative Writing Lesson-Mini Sagas

This lesson can be used across key stages to teach creative writing.

The lesson explores mini saga stories and challenges students to write, peer assess and redraft their writing.

This lesson would most benefit those who see writing creatively as daunting or difficult under timed or restrictive conditions-i.e. based on an image.

The task uses the approach of language paper 1 whereby a stimulus is given for students to base their writing on.

Includes guided peer assessment, exemplars, student friendly wording of the assessment criteria, as well as a plenary which relays a useful memory technique.

Differentiation: colour coded instructions, help boxes, stretch, challenge and never finished tasks plus teacher’s notes in the comment boxes under each slide.

Lesson duration: 50 minutes