Year 9 Creative Writing Masterclass Narrative & Descriptive Writing

A complete Year 9 Creative Writing 15-slide presentation designed to help KS3 students develop more confident, controlled and engaging narrative and descriptive writing. The lesson moves from the foundations of purpose, audience and tone through to imagery, characterisation, narrative structure, tension, pacing and technical accuracy.

The presentation also covers a substantial range of creative-writing techniques, including:

• similes, metaphors and personification
• extended metaphors and sustained imagery
• zoomorphism and pathetic fallacy
• character motivation, flaws and defining quirks
• avoiding predictable character descriptions
• narrative structure and adapted Freytag’s Pyramid
• building tension through sentence length and paragraphing
• controlling pace
• cyclical structures and structural pivots
• creating effective endings
• vocabulary and sentence variety

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