Diary entries from history
From looking through my old school work I came across a English piece of work with history links to the Tudors and Shakespeare. We wrote...
Alternative Story Ideas
How can we adapt a story? Different setting Change of genre Modern version Change resolution New ending Introduce a new character or...
10 Word Stories
Retell stories in 10 words or less - this can provide an insight into a story or act as a summary of a story. Here are some examples,...
Emotion Poems
These can be used to describe a particular emotion using the five senses - I did this as a homework activity when I was in primary...
Writing stimulus idea
Provide a writing stimulus to generate some creative and imaginative ideas among your pupils. This could be multi-modal using images,...
Writing ideas from my school days
Thinking about my own writing experiences in school helped me to consider lots of different writing tasks that could be used in my own...
Fairy Tales and Traditional Tales
I loved fairy tales and traditional tales when I was younger, here are some of my favourites that I can remember reading. Can you...
What do I write, who is it for and why do I write?
Ask children to consider all the types of writing they have done in the last week, then consider the audience and purposes of each...
Put yourself in their shoes
In a session based on writing, we were given a task to summarise a passage. However, we had to do this with our opposite hand and try to...
Story Mountains
Introduce using a story mountain as a method to structure planning a piece of writing with a well known story. By using a well known...
