5 Fully Formatted Short Mentor Text Activities for Creative and Analytical Writing Development

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.

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I have used it as guided lesson content, as home learning tasks, and as the basis of assessment in the past.

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