Creative and descriptive writing

Explore creative and descriptive writing with a selection of hand-picked resources suitable for lower secondary KS3 and upper secondary KS4

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Pencil Tree With Letters To Inspire Creative & Descriptive Writing

Creative and descriptive writing lessons, activities and worksheets for KS3 and KS4 English classes

With key literary texts to teach and quotations to learn, it is easy to let exploitative fiction writing take a back seat. To help minimise workload, we have pulled together a selection of lessons and activities including writing prompts and exam questions you could use with your KS3 and KS4 students.

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Descriptive Writing Task
1981kmorris

Descriptive Writing Task

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AQA Explorations in Creative Writing - Descriptive writing. Could be used for KS3 or KS4. A stand alone worksheet to help student plan and write a descriptive piece of writing based on an image.
Descriptive / Creative Writing
EnglishGCSEcouk

Descriptive / Creative Writing

£3.00
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AQA English Language Paper Question 5, descriptive writing lesson. Complete 1 hour, well differentiated lesson with worksheets and differentiated tasks throughout. Includes peer assessment task and marking criteria. Ideal preparation for Section B of AQA Language Paper 1. Suitable for KS3/4 - a...
AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet
laurajholder

AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet

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You are purchasing a 16 page booklet which takes students through the skills and structure of the P1Q5 task. You will recieve the .pdf and .doc files (please note because of the fonts used the word document may change from the pdf.) This was used for a 3 hour revision writing workshop. The PowerPoin...
24 creative writing prompts
erylands

24 creative writing prompts

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Use as independent activity cards, extensions, homework challenges, big write, assessment writing evidence, guided writes, SPAG lesson responses, talk for writing and more!
Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing
itsatarp

Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing

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Two engaging lesson on varying sentence structures and using punctuation for effect. Includes a range of activities and detailed worksheets that really encourage pupils to see the merit of more varied structural choices, as well as emphasises the significance of technical accuracy. Worked extremely ...
Structuring and Organising Creative Writing
TandLGuru

Structuring and Organising Creative Writing

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This highly engaging and informative double lesson (around 1.5 to 2 hours of teaching materials) helps students to build skills in demonstrating appropriate, sophisticated, and original structures in their writing, and provides them with theories and techniques to help them to organise their writing...
Creative Writing Scaffolding
aarshad2

Creative Writing Scaffolding

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For low ability set, to allow them to structure their writing and embed techniques. Can be edited to add and check for SPAG. Aimed at Detective fiction.
Describe A Beach - Cover Lesson
Miss_Hope

Describe A Beach - Cover Lesson

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In this resource students follow through the tasks to create a description of a beach. It would make a straightforward cover lesson for a KS3 or low ability KS4 group. N.B. I have included a Word Doc. and a PDF of the worksheet for your convenience. ***Did you find this resource helpful? Please c...
Q5 Creative Writing Revision- A3 Intervention Sheet
mmjordan12

Q5 Creative Writing Revision- A3 Intervention Sheet

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**Ideal to use as part of any AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1-based SOW/ Year 11 revision lesson. Especially stretching and challenging for students aiming for grades 7-9!** * Revision of structural techniques * Space to collate a vocabulary bank/ cliches to avoid/ magpied phrases/ ways to start...