Planning and Writing a Narrative (AQA Language Paper 1: Writing)

This is aimed at GCSE students preparing for the Writing Section ( Section B) of AQA Language Paper 1. This resource teaches the foundational steps needed to aid students with structuring and writing a narrative, whilst helping them to employ emotive language and various literary devices such as similes, metaphors, and structural techniques. This bundle includes a planning grid with detailed prompts. This can be used multiple times to practice composing responses to various SAM and practice paper questions for AQA Language Paper 1: Writing.

This lesson starter explores the six phases of a narrative, introducing key ideas and considerations for each of these phases. Focussing on the first four phases, this structuring technique enables students to develop their narrative writing skills in a creative context, as required for the writing section of AQA Language Paper 1. It gives the student a clear formula to help with planning a narrative, helping them to avoid wandering off track or shifting into a descriptive piece.

Worth half the total marks of this entire paper, building confidence and skill with this question will help students compose a compelling narrative to fulfil the assessment requirements of this question, and therefore greatly improve their overall score for AQA Language Paper 1. It is a technique that will also work for students sitting OCR and Edexcel English Language GCSE too.

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