Primary English: Writing types

Tried-and-tested classics, plus a few different ideas, to teach different types of writing with your primary pupils

Tes Resources Team

Primary pupils with notebooks starting to think of different ideas and writing types to start their writing

Top ways of exploring different writing techniques with your primary classes

As pupils start to learn about writing types, a great way to increase their understanding of the differences between them all is to get them to have a go at writing their own. That's why we've gathered a selection of engaging resources, to give your class the inspiration and support they need to write in a variety of styles, with everything from non-chronological report lessons and diary entry practice activities to story writing knowledge organisers and biography planning mats.

If you are looking for even more resources for developing your primary pupils' writing skills, why not explore Editing and improving writing with primary pupils with helpful lesson activities, support mats and checklists for editing and improving writing?

Story

Writing Narratives KS1 Knowledge Organisers Bundle!
TandLGuru

Writing Narratives KS1 Knowledge Organisers Bundle!

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These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for KS1 children when writing for a range of different narrative genres. The organisers are also perfect for teachers, parents and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children s kn...
SLOW WRITING - SUSPENSE WRITING - COMPLETE LESSON
Raphella

SLOW WRITING - SUSPENSE WRITING - COMPLETE LESSON

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A complete lesson based around David Dadau s inspirational SLOW WRITING technique. Aimed at upper KS2 and differentiated fully (3 ways) The lesson develops children s ability to write precisely and consciously to create a vibrant and vivid description of a suspenseful scene in a story. Re...
English- Story Writing- Setting description
ResourcesForYou

English- Story Writing- Setting description

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In this lesson, students will look at what makes a setting description effective. They will learn how to use expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language when describing a setting and will be tasked to identify these in setting descriptions. They will then develop their ide...
Flashback story template
lighthousehunter

Flashback story template

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Flashback story template KS1 & 2 Flashback story planning template. A resource for pupils to use to plan their own story with a flashback writing. Includes a bullet point reminder of the rules for writing flashback stories and spaces for pupils to develop character description, setting and plan...

Newspaper and non-chronological report

Features of a NewsPaper Report Lesson
Primary Earth

Features of a NewsPaper Report Lesson

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Features of a News Paper Report Lesson KS2 English writing lesson to enhance children s newspaper reports using emotive language. Lesson pack includes - Lesson Plan, - News Report example, - Colour coded features checklist, Lesson designed to support the writing of newspaper reports. Lesson i...
Dinosaurs Non-Chronological Reports
PrimaryWow

Dinosaurs Non-Chronological Reports

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Dinosaur-Themed Non-Chronological Reports: WAGOLL Examples Bring prehistoric wonders to life in your Year 2, 3 or 4 classroom with my comprehensive set of 'What a Good One Looks Like' (WAGOLL) Non-Chronological Reports (NCRs). Perfect for dinosaur information text studies, these resources make teac...
Newspaper planning and writing templates.
Rose Grey

Newspaper planning and writing templates.

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A planning template for newspapers, designed to aid children in including all of the features of a newspaper, as well as a range of SPaG features. There are also two pages of writing templates, based upon a Hogwarts student newspaper, for use in my Harry Potter unit, but this is easily editable!

Persuasive letter

Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6
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Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6

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Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6 'Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6 is a mini unit of work containing 3 lessons which teach pupils how to write a formal letter and covers many of the curriculum objectives in the year 5 and 6 English programme of study (Writing - composition). Content ...
Persuasive writing and letter writing.
Jenkate

Persuasive writing and letter writing.

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I wanted to enrage my Year 3 children in order to encourage them to do some brilliant persuasive writing, so I mocked up a letter from 'Bruce Boggington&', the chief director of a pickled onion factory, who wrote to the children explaining that he would be building his new factory all over their...
Persuasive Writing - school uniform
MissFincham

Persuasive Writing - school uniform

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This is a handout that I produced to assist in the writing of a persuasive letter about banning school uniform. The handout includes arguments for and against, as well as some facts and figures about school uniform and a small bank of persuasive techniques.
Year 6 Writing Booster PPT Lesson:  Write a persuasive letter
primary texts

Year 6 Writing Booster PPT Lesson: Write a persuasive letter

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This PPT based lesson will help students to review the skills needed to write a persuasive letter. The lesson format is as below: Discuss: Talk about the features and purpose of persuasive letters and the set task. Analyse: Identify the features that can be seen in an example text. Write: Write a l...

Diary entry

Diary writing scenarios and examples
groov_e_chik

Diary writing scenarios and examples

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There are anumber of scenarios which the children could use to base their diaries on. I find often that the children don't always have ideas or can't remember what they have done over the weekend to write about. There are also extracts from other diaries. One being Anne Frank&'s diary.
KS1 - Diary Plan
clickandteach

KS1 - Diary Plan

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Included is a set of 3 differentiated KS1 Diary Template Plans. The examples fit perfectly with 'The Great Fire of London' topic, however, they can be used for any topic. The main audience for this is Key Stage 1, however, this could be used in any year group. Included: Lower Ability - Scaffold su...

Biography and autobiography

Biography Prompt Poster
Eclipse-Education

Biography Prompt Poster

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Free A4 PDF fetaures of a biography classroom poster. This poster comes free with my biography prompt bookmarks (x30 PDF), link below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12798054
Biography plan
hollyjack1

Biography plan

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Help your students collate facts and plan paragraphs when writing a biography. Can be used when researching or when planning writing (or both!) Suitable for KS2