KS3 Gothic Writing "Glow-Up" Task

An excellent resource made for a differentiated Y8 class which shows them how to improve dull writing! Perfect for use in any Gothic writing module!

This placemat contains:

• a “tedious tale” which has potential, but which is written without sentence variety or descriptive techniques;
• a dice-rolling, slow-writing task where pupils rewrite the tedious tale, taking it a sentence at a time;
• dice grids which pupils use for their rewrite. For each sentence they roll twice: once to see what new sentence type they should use, and twice to find out what technique to include;
• an A-Z of vocabulary befitting their Gothic writing;
• a “Glow-Up” grid and example to help pupils see the transformation process;
• a reminder of the FANBOYS coordinating conjunctions.

The A-Z and Glow-Up grids make excellent resources on their own and I’ve used them with great success with my own pupils.