Creative and descriptive writing

Resources for KS3 and KS4

Let your students’ creativity run wild with our selection of KS3 and GCSE creative and descriptive writing worksheets, lessons, exam questions and revision activities, designed to embed language techniques and improve crafted writing.

Flying books to signify creative and descriptive writing in secondary for KS4

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.

AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Descriptive Writing
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AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Descriptive Writing

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A lesson for Section B of the AQA English Language Paper 1, where students focus on improving their descriptive writing through differentiated activities and success criteria. The lesson enables students to reflect on their uses of language techniques, as well as considering what kind of structure t...
Gothic Horror Creative Writing Lesson
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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...
FREE LESSON creative writing AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5
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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...
24 creative writing prompts
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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!

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.

AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet
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AQA Language Paper 1, Question 5: Creative Writing Booklet

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You are purchasing a 16 page booklet which takes students through the skills and structure of the P1Q5 task. You will recieve the .pdf and .doc files (please note because of the fonts used the word document may change from the pdf.) This was used for a 3 hour revision writing workshop. The PowerPoin...
Language Paper 1: Question 5 Creative Writing
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Language Paper 1: Question 5 Creative Writing

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This concise and effective creative writing resource is ideal for setting as remote work. The clear and visualised format supports creative writing skills, while modelling more advanced literary techniques for more able students. Also, it can also be used as a helpful and effective handout for cla...

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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