Complete KS3 Creative Writing Unit – 25 Lessons, Story Arc, Skills & Assessments

Complete KS3 Narrative and Descriptive Writing unit with 25 fully planned lessons, assessments, resources and models. Covers narrative, description, structure and key writing skills.

This is a complete KS3 Creative Writing Mega Unit designed for Year 7 and Year 8. It includes 25 fully planned lessons with PowerPoints, worksheets, models, and assessment tasks. The unit develops all key narrative and descriptive writing skills, following the story arc from exposition to resolution.

Students learn how to construct characters, develop settings, build tension, use dialogue effectively, apply language devices, vary sentences, upgrade vocabulary, and edit their writing. The unit also teaches core structural features, including rising action, climax, and falling action, providing students with a strong understanding of narrative organisation.

What’s included:
• 25 detailed lesson PowerPoints
• Worksheets for all tasks
• PEAL paragraph formative assessment
• Descriptive writing formative assessment
• Speaking & listening group task
• Final summative narrative writing assessment
• Success criteria and assessment grids
• Model paragraphs and exemplar writing
• Differentiated tasks and scaffolds
• Printable handouts
• Homework suggestion
• Self- and peer-assessment ideas and handout

This unit is ideal for KS3 English teachers looking for a complete, ready-to-teach creative writing scheme that guarantees progress. Perfect for mixed-ability groups, non-specialists, or departments seeking a consistent approach to teaching narrative and descriptive writing.,fun

Covers: characterisation, setting, structure, language devices, show don’t tell, dialogue, speech punctuation, vocabulary building, paragraphing, editing and redrafting.

Provides a full half-term or term of high-quality, fun creative writing lessons.