Suspense Writing Creating Atmosphere Differentiated Plan Sheets

These planning sheets enable children the opportunity to plan out suspense in their writing. A perfect opportunity for them to describe settings and create atmosphere in their writing.

There is differentiated planning sheets based on a child being locked in school: an opportunity to build suspense, are they alone? What do they do? Can they hear noises?

There is differentiated planning sheets based on a child being in bed and hearing noises downstairs. The children are encouraged to use lots of adjectives and build the supsense/ atmosphere slowly.

Planning sheets come with question prompters and grammar challenges based on ability.

There is also a dictionary/ thersaurus lesson to help children think about vocabulary and sentence structure.