Creative writing pack

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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A versatile KS4 pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing.

The pack includes essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling 'problem' areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts.

Practical support to inspire your students.

What's included?

  • KS4 curriculum assessment objective map
  • lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources.

What's inside?

Introduction (page 1)

  • Summary of pack

Getting students started (page 2)

Generating an idea for a story (page 3)

Tenses (page 4)

Narrative point of view page 4-5)

Varying sentences (page 6)

Improving vocabulary and descriptions (pages 7-8)

Conflict (page 9)

Beginnings (page 10)

Plans and planning (page 10)

Resources (pages 11-83)

  • Law and order in Britannica
  • Packing your bag
  • Encounter with Gromitz’ spy
  • Getting across to Tongwe Island
  • Extract from Beast Quest – Krabb, Master of the Sea, by Adam Blade
  • How to have TipTop paragraphing skills
  • Diary Openings
  • Dead Trial by Matthew Green
  • An Active Imagination by Virginia E. Zimmer

This is a sample student activity from the KS4 Creative Writing pack:

When writing one way of making sure that your work is interesting and engaging is to vary your sentence lengths. This activity is a fun way of practising this skill. 

1. Write down your mobile phone number.  If there are any zeros in it then change these to any number of your choice between 1 and 9.  If you don’t have a mobile phone, use your home phone number.


2. Choose one of the following titles:

Christmas    
The Mistake
Theft
Loneliness

3. Select one of the following genres:

Horror    
Fantasy
Romance    
Comedy

4. Write a paragraph for your selected title and genre making sure that the number of words in your sentences follows the pattern of your telephone number.  For example, if your telephone number is 447798146372, then the first sentence must contain 4 words only, the second also 4 words, the third seven words etc.

Writing under these artificial constraints will help you to focus on sentence structure.  It will also demonstrate to you how varying sentence length can make your writing more interesting and can also change the mood and dramatic impact of your writing.


Writing plan

Before you start writing your paragraph, sketch out a brief plan on the following page.

Creative writing pack
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