Creative and descriptive writing

Resources for KS3, KS4 and upper secondary

Let your students’ creativity run wild with our selection of worksheets, lessons, exam questions and revision activities, designed to embed language techniques and improve crafted writing.

Creative and descriptive writing resources

Lessons and activities

Creative and descriptive writing is a great opportunity for students to explore different themes, audiences and purposes as well as demonstrate their understanding of how structure and punctuation can be used to impact a reader. From creative writing prompts to technique booklets and descriptive writing planning mats, we have drawn together a small collection of resources you can use to help with your planning of this unit.

Structuring and Organising Creative Writing
TandLGuru

Structuring and Organising Creative Writing

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This highly engaging and informative double lesson (around 1.5 to 2 hours of teaching materials) helps students to build skills in demonstrating appropriate, sophisticated, and original structures in their writing, and provides them with theories and techniques to help them to organise their writing...
Descriptive Writing
amanda310589

Descriptive Writing

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This resources is based on the creative writing question: 'Write a description based on this image'. It helps students to plan and gather their ideas.
Gothic Horror Creative Writing Lesson
NovelTeachingUK

Gothic Horror Creative Writing Lesson

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An engaging and fully resourced extended writing lesson. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B - Descriptive Writing practice. The PowerPoint includes: * Overview of the features of Gothic literature * Extract from Bram Stoker's *Dracula* for analysis * Creative wr...
24 creative writing prompts
erylands

24 creative writing prompts

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Use as independent activity cards, extensions, homework challenges, big write, assessment writing evidence, guided writes, SPAG lesson responses, talk for writing and more!
FREE LESSON creative writing AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5
FictionThing

FREE LESSON creative writing AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5

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FREE lesson focusing on creative writing (AQA Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Question 5). The lesson uses the monster Grendel from Beowulf as its stimulus, but no real prior knowledge is needed, as student use a word bank in the starter/bell work to make inferences about the character. An ac...

Key learning and revision

To help your students practise crafting their creative pieces, we have pulled together a selection of resources from structure strips to exam questions to support your students when tackling such a large part of the English language exam.

GCSE revision resources

Support your students in the run-up to May with this bumper collection of GCSE revision English language and English literature revision resources.

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Teacher essentials

Explore this collection of essential resources including starter and plenary activities, templates, marking and feedback tools and more.

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