Creative and descriptive writing

Resources for KS3, KS4 and upper secondary

Let your students’ creativity run wild with our selection of worksheets, lessons, exam questions and revision activities, designed to embed language techniques and improve crafted writing.

Lessons and activities

Creative and descriptive writing is a great opportunity for students to explore different themes, audiences and purposes as well as demonstrate their understanding of how structure and punctuation can be used to impact a reader. From creative writing prompts to technique booklets and descriptive writing planning mats, we have drawn together a small collection of resources you can use to help with your planning of this unit.

EnglishGCSEcouk

Descriptive / Creative Writing

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Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing

itsatarp

Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing

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1981kmorris

Descriptive Writing Task

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AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Descriptive Writing

EnglishGCSEcouk

AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Descriptive Writing

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itsatarp

Crafting creative writing - AQA English Language Paper 1, Question 5

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A lesson designed to encourage pupils to craft their structural and linguistic choices for high impact. Includes a range of highly engaging activities and explicit approaches to writing and crafting. Designed to meet AQA English Language spec but easily adaptable.

lhowellpratt

Creative/ Descriptive Writing Placemat: Image Prompt: Structure Strips

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An activity and lesson in one! Blow place-mat up onto A3 sheet of paper. Starter: Writing down ambitious adjectives to describe the image. Development: Annotate the model paragraph Main: Writing a description based on the image using the structure strips as a guide.

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...

amanda310589

Descriptive Writing

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This resources is based on the creative writing question: 'Write a description based on this image'. It helps students to plan and gather their ideas.

NovelTeachingUK

Gothic Horror Creative Writing Lesson

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An engaging and fully resourced extended writing lesson. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B - Descriptive Writing practice. The PowerPoint includes: * Overview of the features of Gothic literature * Extract from Bram Stoker's *Dracula* for analysis * Creative wr...

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!

nationalarchives

Places - Creative & Descriptive Writing - English Language GCSE

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This collection of photographs from The National Archives image library has been collated to provide a resource for English Language GCSE. The images can be used for descriptive or narrative creative writing prompts, allowing students to consider a variety of historical scenes as inspiration for ...

FictionThing

FREE LESSON creative writing AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5

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FREE lesson focusing on creative writing (AQA Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Question 5). The lesson uses the monster Grendel from Beowulf as its stimulus, but no real prior knowledge is needed, as student use a word bank in the starter/bell work to make inferences about the character. An ac...

Laura Williams

Descriptive writing booklet

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A booklet which can be used to introduce/revise descriptive writing. Can also be used as a stand alone cover lesson as the tasks are self explanatory.

Key learning and revision

To help your students practise crafting their creative pieces, we have pulled together a selection of resources from structure strips to exam questions to support your students when tackling such a large part of the English language exam.