Primary English: Writing types

Tried-and-tested classics, plus a few different ideas, to teach narrative writing, descriptive writing, informative writing, discursive writing and persuasive writing to 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 tried-and-tested activities, plus a few out-of-the-box ideas, to give your class the inspiration and support they need to write in a variety of styles. 

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?

Writing to describe

Poetry Train
The Poetry Society

Poetry Train

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Poetry Train is a teachers pack of activities, poems and advice for teaching poetry in primary schools. David Harmer and Roger Stevens share proven approaches for use in the classroom, based on brilliant poems by top poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay.
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...

Writing to persuade

PERSUASIVE WRITING: TECHNIQUES SCAVENGER HUNT
Laurane Rae

PERSUASIVE WRITING: TECHNIQUES SCAVENGER HUNT

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Teach students 20 persuasive techniques of the persuasive writing genre with this interactive fun resource. This pack includes 20 Scavenger Hunt cards, 1 Recording Sheet, and an Answer Key to equip students with necessary content information on persuasive writing techniques that they can apply to th...
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.

Writing to inform

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...
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

Writing to discuss

Discussion Text Sentence Openers
Teachallenjoy

Discussion Text Sentence Openers

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A complete bank of discussion text sentence openers. Includes a variety of words grouped into useful types. All that you need for expanding vocabulary and heightening progress during a discussion text unit. Types of openers included: * Openers for additional points of view * Openers for opposing po...
Literacy: A Writing Frame to Discuss / Debate
Roy Huggins

Literacy: A Writing Frame to Discuss / Debate

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This literacy resource has been designed to help students to either discuss or debate in either a speech or a piece of writing. The cards can either be printed off as a worksheet or cut out to be used as set of literacy cards in the classroom. Please note that they are designed to be used in a Briti...
Book review Mind Map
HJames4

Book review Mind Map

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This is a blank mind map worksheet for creating a book review. Prints on A4, best photocopied up to A3 size. Pupils fill in boxes with brief descriptions as prompted for story characters, draw and label the elements of the storyline, tick boxes to show the genre and their opinions in brief, fill in...