This resource contains five excerpts from different novels, each showcasing a different element of quality narrative fiction (e.g. different stylistic devices). There is an analytical and a creative writing question/activity for each excerpt to guide students in considering the ways in which authors actively construct texts to achieve a particular effect on their audience. These activities have helped students to strengthen their own understanding of key literary devices and confidence utilising them in their own creative writing. This document is editable so that you can adjust or add questions and/or excepts as needed. I have used it as guided lesson content, as home learning tasks, and as the basis of assessment in the past. Please note that this resource is also for sale on Teachers Pay Teachers, to avoid accidental double purchases

This is designed for use after a class analysis and study of the poem ‘The Next War.’ It is a mini skills workshop using an excerpt of the poem as a mentor text for teaching and practising writing personification. Students examine the text, identify the personification and then try to create their own examples. I have my students read their work out to the class at the end and find ways of rewarding the work. This is an editable document so that you can add or adjust things as needed to suit your class. You could use the same excerpt for workshopping tone, ambiguity and more.

Students can benefit from using the set texts for analytical study as models for what to do in their own creative writing. This task encourages students to actively consider the value of sensory imagery and allows students to build their skills in applying sensory detail in a narrative setting. Because they are already confident with the context and mood of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est,’ they are often more confident in trying their hand at creative writing, as the setting, context and mood are already decided upon, reducing the number of creative decisions they need to make. This task works best after an analytical study of the poem or a series of poems by Wilfred Owen. This will easily cover one class period and could be spread over two lessons if preferred. This is an editable document so that you can adjust questions and samples as needed to suit your individual students’ needs.

4 x 1 hr class tests, each with an excerpt from a narrative (varied authors, allowing for emphasis on varied literary devices) and associated analytical and creative writing response questions. The document is editable so that you can tweak timing, questions, marks allocated to each question, etc. You can use these as exam questions, in-class skills building lessons, and more. In the Australian (NSW) context, I have used activities like these for yr 11 Reading to Write and HSC Craft of Writing units. *Note: This is also for sale on Teachers Pay Teachers - to avoid accidental double purchases

This resource includes two creative writing tasks centered on the theme of place. Each task offers a narrative prompt and TWO questions - one requirung them to create their own imaginative piece inspired by the thematic focus and literary techniques evident within the prompt provided, and one requiring them to analytically explain their creative choices in crafting their imaginative piece. This task encourages students to demonstrate their understanding of concepts of connection and belonging to a particular location through the application of varied literary devices utilised in the mentor texts provided by the prompts. This can serve as a guided class activity or as an assessment task. There are two separate activities so that teachers who want to use this as an assessed task can also have an in-build practice test included. I have successfully used this over the course of 3-4 lessons, splitting the task up to use the first task as a guided reading and planning activity over the course of at least two lessons, and then using the second question as a practice timed test. I hope you find this resource useful with your own students!

This resource provides a series of in-class essay tasks designed for high school English (literature) students studying Wilfred Owen’s poetry. Each essay response question focuses on different aspects of Owen’s work, prompting students to explore things such as: human suffering the enduring relevance of texts the function of poetry as social or political critique poetry as a vehicle by which composers prompt critical reflection on dominant assumptions exploration of human nature innocence and vulnerability … and more. These essay tasks are structured to allow you to easily assess student understanding of how context shapes meaning and how composers actively use language forms and features and the structure of their texts to craft meaning.

This bundle contains: a short story, a series of analytical and creative writing activities vocabulary and spelling work It is structured to work as skill-building work that could be useful for single lessons (selecting relevant portions of the document for your class) or for a deep dive into creative writing skills over 2-3 lessons. It works really well for casual cover lessons, and is easy for students to follow. I have uploaded this resource as a Microsoft Word document so that individual teachers can edit the document as needed for their particular class needs.

This bundle provides 15 fully formatted essay questions which can be used as study questions, practice tests or assessment tasks. They support assessment of student understanding based on units of work which focus on a critical study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Each question is designed to assess students’ understanding of the novel through various analytical lenses, and encourage students to engage with the text and its context, demonstrating their ability to analyse and interpret Shelley’s work with detailed textual evidence. I hope you find these useful!