Upper Key Stage 2 (KS2) creative writing resource to improve your students’ sentence structure. Whether used as a regular SPaG warm up or VCOP starter for writing, early finisher task, or main lesson task, these creative writing worksheets will get your students uplevelling their writing and extending sentences. There are 40 A4 dyslexia-friendly complex sentence construction trails, which includes differentiation and worked examples, to help add detail and interest to descriptive / creative writing. While stretching sentences, students will uplevel their vocabulary and use a variety of ambitious sentence structures. They’ll try more powerful verbs, interesting nouns, similes, start with adverbs or -ing and -ed words, add adjectives, drop further information into sentences using subclauses, use connectives to add information etc.
- Ideal for KS2, especially Year 5 and Year 6 (Y5 / Y6), or KS3. In Scotland, ideal for Primary 6 and 7.
- All files in PDF within Zip file
- Scaffolds the imaginative writing of reluctant or struggling writers, while also challenging more able writers
- Each page starts with a simple, boring sentence and, step-by-step, learners extend and improve it, adding elements of VCOP and other sentence improvement techniques to construct a fuller description
- The worked examples provided could be shared on the board and perhaps printed and laminated to support less confident creative writers
- Works well as a regular SPaG warm up / starter for writing, an early finisher task, homework or main lesson task
- All resources included with and without cream background
- Printing with this background could support dyslexic learners and those with other barriers to learning or print no background versions on pastel paper to reduce glare
- Fonts used are dyslexia-friendly
- Use as worksheets or laminate for regular use (using dry-wipe pens)
- Enlarge to A3 for paired or group use
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30 sheets for middle and higher ability / older students
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10 worked examples for these
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10 sheets for lower ability / younger students, featuring built in examples and fewer instructions
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A really clear and easy to use resource. I've been using the sheets as a starter activity with a lower level KS4 student who really struggles with anything related to writing creatively. The step by step process of the worksheets give my student a confidence boost at the start of a session. Many thanks!
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