Effective openings- improving creative writing

A ready to go creative writing lesson that could work as part of any unit or creative writing assessment prep and can be easily tailored to focus on other specific skills. You could also adapt the lesson to incorportate the opening of your class reader or extracts from the genre your class are studying. The lesson takes students though some of literature’s most famous and effective story openings and encourages class discussion around the specific skills the writers have used. Students then use a picture stimulus to write their own opening to be peer assessed and shared with the class. Worksheet also included. Use with high ability KS3 or middle/lower KS4 classes. Would also work well for AQA Paper 1, Question 5 preparation.