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Writing Dialogue: Creative Writing Activities_15 to 18 years
Realistic dialogue elevates and sharpens any story. With these four activities your students will discover how and why conversations can drive their plot forward. And, what characters think or don’t say can reveal even more. Your students will learn to -
Recognise terrible dialogue in books and movies and discover fixes.
Explore what informs and motivates their characters’ dialogue.
Recognise and avoid common pitfalls when framing conversations.
Look for authenticity in the way their characters speak.
Punctuate and format correctly, before they start tearing their hair out!
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, reading comprehension, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Mini and Comprehensive Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Literary examples
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Writing Dialogue: Creative Writing Lesson Plans_15 to 18 years
Realistic dialogue elevates and sharpens any story. With this bundle of lessons your students will discover how and why conversations can drive their plot forward. And, what characters think or don’t say can reveal even more. Your students will learn to -
Recognise terrible dialogue in books and movies and discover fixes.
Explore what informs and motivates their characters’ dialogue.
Recognise and avoid common pitfalls when framing conversations.
Look for authenticity in the way their characters speak.
Punctuate and format correctly, before they start tearing their hair out!
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, reading comprehension, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Mini and Comprehensive Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Literary examples
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Writing Dialogue: Creative Writing Activities_11 to 14 years
Dialogue: Creative Writing Activities_11 to 14 yrs
Realistic dialogue elevates and sharpens any story. These four activities apply secrets from master storytellers to build on existing skills. Your students will discover how and why conversations drive their plot forward. Your students will learn to -
Explore what informs and motivates their characters’ dialogue.
Recognise and avoid common pitfalls when framing conversations.
Look for authenticity in the way their characters speak.
Punctuate and format correctly, before they start tearing their hair out!
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Literary examples
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Writing Dialogue: Creative Writing Lesson Plans_11 to 14 years
Realistic dialogue elevates and sharpens any story. With this bundle of lessons your students will discover how and why conversations can drive their plot forward. And, what characters think or don’t say can reveal even more. Your students will learn to -
Explore what informs and motivates their characters’ dialogue.
Recognise and avoid common pitfalls when framing conversations.
Look for authenticity in the way their characters speak.
Punctuate and format correctly, before they start tearing their hair out!
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Mini and Comprehensive Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Literary examples
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Hero or Antihero? Creative Writing Lessons & Resources_11 to 14 yrs
With the right tools, your students can write confident and compelling narrative pieces. These bundled lessons apply secrets from master storytellers to build on existing skills, Students will discover how a character’s flaws or mistakes can become the engine for an electrifying plot. Your students will learn to -
• Craft compelling, honest, potentially hilarious characters using various writing techniques.
• Quickly set themselves up for a successful first draft.
• See that it’s good for a story when nothing goes according to plan.
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Mini and Comprehensive Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Plus
Bonus Antihero poster
Activities
Speaking and listening, reading comprehension, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with other questions.
Hero or Antihero? Creative Writing Activities for 11 to 14 yrs
With the right tools, your students can write confident and compelling narrative pieces. These four comprehensive activities apply secrets from master storytellers to build on existing skills, Students will discover how a character’s flaws or mistakes can become the engine for an electrifying plot. Your students will learn to -
• Craft compelling, honest, potentially hilarious characters using various writing techniques.
• Quickly set themselves up for a successful first draft.
• See that it’s good for a story when nothing goes according to plan.
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Mini and Comprehensive Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Plus
Bonus Antihero poster
Activities
Speaking and listening, reading comprehension, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with other questions.
Opening Lines & Hooks: Creative Writing Lesson Plans _11 to 14 yrs
There’s nothing quite like staring at a blank page. These bundled lesson plans apply secrets from master storytellers as students discover techniques to conquer those first line blues. They will learn to -
Grab the reader’s attention from the very first line and hold onto it.
Review the first lines of famous novels and develop their own style.
Saturate their stories with atmosphere and meaning.
Write to inform and entertain. And be ruthless about the editing process.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, reading comprehension, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this plan
Reading and Comprehension Activities
Mini and Comprehensive Writing Activities
Famous quotes for discussion
Literary examples
Story prompts
Story planner for students
Online resource links
Opening Lines & Hooks: Creative Writing Activities_11 to 14 yrs
There’s nothing quite like staring at a blank page. Using these five activities students will apply secrets from master storytellers as they discover techniques to conquer those first line blues. They will learn to -
Grab the reader’s attention from the very first line and hold onto it.
Review the first lines of relevant, famous novels and develop their own style.
Write to inform and entertain. And be ruthless about the editing process.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Resources included in this plan
Writing and Mini Writing Activities
Story prompts
Reading and Comprehension
Story planner
Online resource links
Opening Lines & Hooks: Creative Writing Activities_15 to 18 yrs
There’s nothing quite like staring at a blank page. Using these five activities students will apply secrets from master storytellers as they discover techniques to conquer those first line blues. They will learn to -
Grab the reader’s attention from the very first line and hold onto it.
Review the first lines of famous novels and develop their own style.
Write to inform and entertain. And be ruthless about the editing process.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Resources included in this plan
Writing and Mini Writing Activities
Story prompts
Reading and Comprehension
Story planner
Online resource links
Bundle
Creative Writing Super Bundle for 15-18yrs
This Creative Writing Bundle reflects a 60% discount and is packed with successful lesson plans, printables, writing prompts and online resources to help your students build on existing skills lesson by lesson. Your students will learn how to -
• Develop a solid plot structure.
• Quickly set themselves up for a successful first draft.
• Get tools to keep their stories clear and on track.
• Discover how to use a writing prompt to find their starting point.
• Remove the fear from the thought of writing a whole story.
• Beat writer’s block. Discover the technique that award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uses to make a great start, every time.
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Developing viewpoint, voice and ideas
Writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this bundle
Story Mountain
Story Mountain for Advanced Climbers
Images - Flood, Worst Hotel
Reading - Why should I plan?
Reading / Ranking Activities
Activity Sheets
Story prompts
Images (copyright free)
Quotes and song lyrics
Teaching Guide
Printables
12 Curated images + story prompts
Story planner
Online resource links
All my students enjoy these activities. The lessons and resources build confidence, help them generate ideas and practice creating effective story plots, characters and settings.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources or with any questions. Many thanks!
Visual Creative Writing Prompts Kit: 11-14 years Kit: 15-18 years
Every great picture packs an unforgettable story, but which one? With this adaptable Visual Story Starter Kit, your students can choose from 12 curated creative writing prompts. Each image is designed to inspire your students, and help them to write from the heart.
Includes
Teaching Guide
Printables
12 Curated images + story prompts
Story planner
Learning objectives
Writing
Generating ideas, planning and drafting
Developing viewpoint, voice and ideas
Writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Differentiation opportunities
Ask students to find an image they want to write a story about.
With the flexible Story Starter Kit you can create your activities. It’s easy to add your own visual prompts to this resource. All my students enjoy this activity. It helps them generate ideas and practice creating characters and settings.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with other questions. Many thanks!
Visual Creative Writing Prompts Kit: 11-14 years
Every great picture has the makings of an unforgettable story, but which one? With this adaptable Visual Story Starter Kit, your students can choose from 12 curated creative writing prompts. Each image is designed to inspire your students, and help them to write from the heart.
Includes
Teaching Guide
Printables
12 Curated images + story prompts
Story planner
Learning objectives
Writing
Generating ideas, planning and drafting
Developing viewpoint, voice and ideas
Writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Differentiation opportunities
Ask students to find an image they want to write a story about.
With the flexible Story Starter Kit you can create your activities. It’s easy to add your own visual prompts to this resource. All my students enjoy this activity. It helps them generate ideas and practice creating characters and settings.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with other questions. Many thanks!
Realistic Characters & Emotion: Creative Writing Lesson Plans for 12 to 14 yrs
Ray Bradbury’s advice on how to write confident and compelling narrative? “Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”
With the right tools, your students can write narrative pieces that blaze. In these lessons they’ll gain the skills to become highly attuned to the world around them, develop their voices and create their best work. They will learn how to -
• Identify and develop strong ideas that add heat to a story.
• Use popular song lyrics to find story ideas.
• Beat writer’s block. Discover the technique that award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uses to make a great start, every time.
• Craft compelling stories that are relevant and timeless.
Time Allowance / Key Stage
3-4 lessons
KS3
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this plan
Story prompts
Images
Quotes and song lyrics
Story planners for students (2 pages)
Online resource links
Please contact Claire Vorster with any questions. Many thanks!
Realistic Characters and Emotion: Creative Writing Activities_15 to 18 yrs
With the right tools, your students can write narrative pieces that blaze. In these four activities they will turn life’s strangest moments into a dramatic story. They’ll gain the skills to become highly attuned to the world around them, develop their voices and create their best work. They will learn how to -
• Identify and develop strong ideas that add heat to a story.
• Use popular song lyrics to find story ideas.
• Beat writer’s block. Discover the technique that award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uses to make a great start, every time.
• Craft compelling stories that are relevant and timeless.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with any questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Resources included in this plan
Writing and Mini Writing Activities
Story prompts
Reading and Comprehension
Quotes and song lyrics
Online resource links
Realistic Characters and Emotion: Creative Writing Activities_12 to 14 yrs
With the right tools, your students can write narrative pieces that blaze. In these four activities they will turn life’s strangest moments into a dramatic story. They’ll gain the skills to become highly attuned to the world around them, develop their voices and create their best work. They will learn how to -
• Identify and develop strong ideas that add heat to a story.
• Use popular song lyrics to find story ideas.
• Beat writer’s block. Discover the technique that award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uses to make a great start, every time.
• Craft compelling stories that are relevant and timeless.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with any questions.
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Resources included in this plan
Writing and Mini Writing Activities
Story prompts
Reading and Comprehension
Quotes and song lyrics
Online resource links
3 Act Story Structure: Creative Writing Lesson Plans for 15-18 yrs
With the right tools, your students can write confident and compelling narrative pieces. These lessons apply secrets from a master storyteller to build on existing skills, adding a dynamic story telling element. Your students will learn how to -
• Develop a solid plot structure.
• Quickly set themselves up for a successful first draft.
• Get tools to keep their stories clear and on track.
• Discover how to use a writing prompt to find their starting point.
• Remove the fear from the thought of writing a whole story.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Time Allowance
1-2 lessons
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this plan
Story prompts
Story planner for students (2 pages)
Online resource links
Please contact Claire Vorster with any questions. Many thanks
3 Act Story Structure: Creative Writing Lesson Plans for 12-14yrs
With the right tools, your students can write confident and compelling narrative pieces. These lessons apply secrets from a master storyteller to build on existing skills, adding a dynamic story telling element. Your students will learn how to -
• Develop a solid plot structure.
• Quickly set themselves up for a successful first draft.
• Get tools to keep their stories clear and on track.
• Discover how to use a writing prompt to find their starting point.
• Remove the fear from the thought of writing a whole story.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or other questions.
Time Allowance
1-2 lessons
Activities
Speaking and listening, planning, writing, reviewing.
Learning objectives
Reading
Understanding the author’s craft: story shape
Writing
Composition: generating ideas, planning and drafting
Composition: shaping and constructing language for expression and effect
Speaking and Listening
Developing active listening skills and strategies
Group discussion and interaction: Developing and adapting discussion skills and strategies
Resources included in this plan
Story prompts
Story planner for students (2 pages)
Online resource links
Please contact Claire Vorster with any questions. Many thanks
Effective Story Endings: Creative Writing Mini Activities_15 to 18 yrs
These mini creative writing activities will help students discover how to write effective story endings.
You will find a fabulous bundle of creative writing lessons here. They apply secrets from master storytellers to build on existing skills, These lessons will engage your students as they create compelling characters and emotions that elevate and sharpen any story.
Please contact Claire Vorster for free resources, or with other questions.
strange but true! story prompts
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
—Patrick Rothfuss, author
Examples of best selling books or movies that were inspired or experienced by the people who lived them:
The Imitation Game
First Man
Adrift
Dunkirk
Into the Wild
Apollo 13
Here are 8 curated examples of real stories – from poignant to silly. Students can take the idea that appeals the most and write their own fictional story.
Learning objectives
Generating ideas, planning and drafting
Reading and engaging with a wide and varied range of texts
Developing viewpoint, voice and ideas
Differentiation opportunities
Ask students to find a headline they want to write a story about
You can create your own favourite creative writing prompts from headlines. It’s easy to pull up the day’s news and take quick screenshots. All my students enjoy this activity. It can help them write realistic / fiction about a topic they are interested in.
The Lighthouse Cat Kit: 10 Activities, Printables, Story Writing
In an old lighthouse, where a twenty-four-candle lantern lights a sparkling blue-green sea, live a lighthouse keeper and his little companion – a cat called Mackerel. One day, a huge storm comes and the lights go out. Mackerel has an ingenious plan to help…but will it work?
Resources included
10 Activities
Printables
Story Mountain
Worksheets
Handouts
Story planner
Online resource links
Activities
Comprehension, speaking and listening, story & information writing, labeling, drawing /painting, memory game
Learning outcomes
English
• listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings
• use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising
• imagining and exploring ideas
• listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
• re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
• discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
• develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:
writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
writing about real events
Art
• use drawing and imagination to develop their ideas.
• Use tone, pattern, line and shape in pictures.
These lessons are written by children’s author and tutor Claire Vorster. Enjoy!