BBC Red Nose Day Comedy Classroom secondary writing resource

The National Literacy Trust produced this resource pack with BBC Learning, both to mobilise great writing and to encourage pupils to get involved in Red Nose Day!

Focusing on comedy writing is also a perfect match for the core requirements for teaching English across the UK and helps deliver the key writing skills listed in this pack.

As well as a series of three 60-minute teaching sequences, this resource also contains top tips from comedy industry producers, writers and performers. It focuses on three types of comedy writing:

• Stand-up comedy – the writer performs words that put across their own particular view of the world
• Sketch comedy – the writer turns a funny idea into a scene that people can perform
• Caption comedy – the writer looks at an image and creates a funny line to go with it