Short stories

Explore this exciting and unique form with KS3-5 students, with a range of short story resources from writers as powerful and compelling as Michele Roberts, Neil Gaiman, Michael Morpurgo, Agatha Christie, Doris Lessing, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Graham Swift, D.H Lawrence, H.G Wells, Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Allan Poe. 

Whether you are exploring the craft of writing, or helping students to prepare for descriptive, narrative and imaginative writing tasks of their own, you'll find a rich and engaging collection of lesson and teaching ideas, worksheets and comprehension tasks to develop students' analytical, reading and writing skills.  

If you are teaching KS3 students, try our Diverse short stories teaching pack, a complete scheme of learning covering 6 wonderful short stories by Black and Asian writers, to help to diversify and enrich your curriculum delivery to make it more inclusive and representative.

 

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Main Subject
English
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Modern prose
Prose
Reading
Literature
English
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Role play/debate/discussion
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Time period
Post-1900
Genre
Heritage
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Main Subject
English
Category
Writing narrative texts
Writing for purpose and audience
Writing skills
Language
English
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Main Subject
English
Category
English
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Writing skills
Writing for purpose and audience
Creative writing
Writing narrative texts
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Starter/Plenary
Worksheet
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