How to Write Great Stories Every Time

Not only do you get a great story to teach from, but it is 630 words long, so your students can write the same amount in the exam.
Better than that, you can teach how to use the picture as a springboard to writing the story, without them stressing.
Crucially, you can teach your students to write a story, under exam pressure, WITHOUT HAVING TO PLAN!
The most helpful part is the free video which comes with it, to show you lots of ways of teaching the story to your class. There are 7 useful tips in the video:

1. What’s holding you back in your writing?
2. A fascinating fact about learning to swim and learning to drive, which will help you become a writer!
3. A picture.
4. A story and description.
5. How an expert thinks as they write, which will help you think like an expert.
6. How to have fun in the exam. No, I really mean it!
7. And obviously, how to write a brilliant description or story which will get you full marks (unless you can’t punctuate, but that is another video).

As you will see from the extract below, it is particulary useful for teaching boys!
“Obviously, the cooler part of my brain, the mixed martial art aficionado part, registered that I was about to get my ticket punched, so obviously I kept on ducking. Unfortunately, as you’ve seen by now, this wasn’t the most active part of my brain and so, like South West Trains, it had arrived a little late, and bam, there it was: fist, face – fiddlesticks.”

Although it is in Word, I’ve spaced the paragraphs and font so that it will fill your screen a paragraph at a time, like a PPT.