Story Writing: Crash Landing Alien Planet

This is a creative writing unit supporting students to write about crash landing on an alien planet including sensory details in description of the planet.

The resource includes:

• A Model Text- focusing on sentence openers, sensory description and adjectives
• Resources to support students when imagining a new planet setting - differentiated in different formats
• Links to Science- Habitats - visual vocabulary included
• Planning frame following the structure of the model text
• Sensory detail recording frame

My students came up with great original ideas for writing their stories based on their planet designs. Some very reluctant writers produced 5 sentence stories using the structure. My most able writers ran with it and wrote 5 extended paragraphs. The resources can be used in an individual way and the planning formats scaffold various steps in the imagining process.