Writing templates for primary

Templates to help primary pupils plan and structure different types of writing

Tes Resources Team

Primary pupil writing using writing templates to structure their ideas

A range of writing templates for primary pupils to structure and develop their ideas

With everything from newspaper report templates, story writing templates and book review templates, we have hand-picked a collection of quick and easy resources to save you time and help your primary learners to structure and clarify different types of writing.

If you are looking for lesson resources to teach different types of writing why not take a look at Primary English: Writing types?

Newspaper templates

Newspaper templates
egtexts

Newspaper templates

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Three newspaper templates. The children can write directly onto the PDF version - this has a second page. Or - they can edit directly into the Word document. The Word template contains columns rather than text boxes so the text and pictures should not leap around all over the place as the ...
Newspaper Report Templates
InkwellPlans

Newspaper Report Templates

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A planning template has sections for headlines, what, why, who, where, when and quotes. The writing templates follow a traditional newspaper format with sections for the date, headline and an illustration. Inkwell Plans creates high quality lesson sequences. This resource is from a unit of work on...
Newspaper planning and writing templates.
Rose Grey

Newspaper planning and writing templates.

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A planning template for newspapers, designed to aid children in including all of the features of a newspaper, as well as a range of SPaG features. There are also two pages of writing templates, based upon a Hogwarts student newspaper, for use in my Harry Potter unit, but this is easily editable!

Story writing templates

Flashback story template
lighthousehunter

Flashback story template

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Flashback story template KS1 & 2 Flashback story planning template. A resource for pupils to use to plan their own story with a flashback writing. Includes a bullet point reminder of the rules for writing flashback stories and spaces for pupils to develop character description, setting and plan...
Adventure story template
lighthousehunter

Adventure story template

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Adventure story template KS1 & 2 Adventure story planning template. A resource for pupils to use to plan their own adventure writing. Includes a bullet point reminder of the rules for writing adventure stories and spaces for pupils to develop character description, setting and plan the structur...

Book review and book cover templates

Book review template
hanaprice

Book review template

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I use this to encourage my children, my free readers, to read novels and report back on them. They retrieve sheet from me once finished a book and I read review once they have written it, to check. They are filed into a class wallet folder for all children to read. The class often use this indep...
Differentiated Book Review Templates
Claire McNeill

Differentiated Book Review Templates

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A fun way for students to review books! One of the most important things in any classroom is reading! It's important that students begin reading books at a young age, it is important that we teach them to communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas about the books they read. This download ...
Book Review Template
nataliethompson4

Book Review Template

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A book review template for pupils to use once they've finished reading a book. Can be kept in a review box in the reading corner/area for other children to use when picking their next book.
Design a Book Cover
tesSpecialNeeds

Design a Book Cover

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Editable book cover templates in PowerPoint format to allow pupils to write a book blurb and design a book cover. Sassoon font is used and is embedded

Biography writing templates

Biography plan
hollyjack1

Biography plan

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Help your students collate facts and plan paragraphs when writing a biography. Can be used when researching or when planning writing (or both!) Suitable for KS2
Biography Writing Templates
Happy Teacher

Biography Writing Templates

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Digital and/or print templates for writing biographies, book reports and for organising biography based research. Each template is available as a digital pdf or as a print worksheet. Encourage students to respond to biographical texts, complete their own research, or participate in an inquiry on a h...

Report and recount templates

Animal report template
TheEnglishCafe

Animal report template

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Younger students (EYFS, Grade 1, Kindergarten) or early ESL/EAL/EFL learners can use this simple template when learning how to write reports.
TripReviewers - Recount Writing Template
Teaching Ideas

TripReviewers - Recount Writing Template

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Ask your children to write a 'review' of a place they have visited during school holidays / weekends with our 'TripReviewers' templates. You could also use it to review the destination of a recent school visit / trip. Six different templates are included so that you can use them with children o...

Collection of writing templates

Writing Graphic Organisers
Katherine Chung

Writing Graphic Organisers

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Take a seat *Hamburger Planners*...say hello to a new range of graphic organizers! These printable planning templates are perfect for both teacher modelling and student recording in the pre-writing stage of the writing process! Not to mention, each design is different because no writing genre is t...