Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (2462)
- (-) English (515)
- (-) Literature (515)
- Reading (490)
- Drama (190)
- Prose (163)
- Poetry (128)
- Anthology poetry (86)
- Shakespeare for key stage 3 (86)
- Modern drama (78)
- 19th-century prose (75)
- Modern prose (75)
- Language (22)
- Unseen poetry (12)
- Understanding a prose text (5)
- Comparing poems (4)
- Understanding the plot (4)
- Character study (3)
- Themes (3)
- Planning essays (2)
- Context: literary (1)
- Direct speech (1)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Punctuation (1)
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (1286)
- Post-1900 (111)
- William Shakespeare (109)
- William Shakespeare (90)
- Pre-1900 (50)
- Tragedy (41)
- Macbeth (38)
- Macbeth (38)
- Gothic (30)
- Fiction (29)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (25)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (24)
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (24)
- Fiction (23)
- An Inspector Calls (22)
- J.B. Priestley (22)
- Charles Dickens (21)
- Heritage (20)
- The Tempest (20)
- Comedy (18)
- A Christmas Carol (16)
- History (16)
- History (15)
- Carol Ann Duffy (13)
- Of Mice and Men (13)
- John Steinbeck (12)
- Charles Dickens (11)
- Lord of the Flies (11)
- Othello (11)
- Othello (11)
- William Golding (11)
- Arthur Miller (9)
- Frankenstein (8)
- Mary Shelley (8)
- Robert Frost (8)
- Brian Friel (7)
- Modern (7)
- A Christmas Carol (6)
- Emily Bronte (6)
- Much Ado About Nothing (6)
- Oscar Wilde (6)
- Seamus Heaney (6)
- Susan Hill (6)
- The Woman in Black (6)
- Thomas Hardy (6)
- Wuthering Heights (6)
- George Bernard Shaw (5)
- Pygmalion (5)
- Richard III (5)
- Translations (5)
- Death of a Salesman (4)
- Great Expectations (4)
- Hamlet (4)
- Romeo and Juliet (4)
- T.S. Eliot (4)
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles (4)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (4)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (4)
- The Merchant of Venice (4)
- A Doll’s House (3)
- Alice Walker (3)
- Angela Carter (3)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (3)
- A View from the Bridge (3)
- Charlotte Bronte (3)
- Christina Rossetti (3)
- Henrik Ibsen (3)
- Heroes (3)
- Ian McEwan (3)
- Jane Eyre (3)
- John Webster (3)
- Lady Macbeth (3)
- Robert Browning (3)
- Robert Cormier (3)
- Simon Armitage (3)
- Ted Hughes (3)
- Tennessee Williams (3)
- The Bloody Chamber (3)
- The Color Purple (3)
- The Duchess of Malfi (3)
- The Sign of Four (3)
- Twelfth Night (3)
- Willy Russell (3)
- About a Boy (2)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2)
- Antony and Cleopatra (2)
- Arundhati Roy (2)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (2)
- Bali Rai (2)
- Beloved (2)
- Blood Brothers (2)
- Bram Stoker (2)
- Daljit Nagra (2)
- Dennis Kelly (2)
- DNA (2)
- Dracula (2)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (2)
- George Orwell (2)
- H.G. Wells (2)
- Henry V (2)
- Inspector Goole (2)
- Jane Austen (2)
- John Keats (2)
- Julius Caesar (2)
- Kate Atkinson (2)
- Marcus Sedgwick (2)
- Margaret Atwood (2)
- Measure for Measure (2)
- My Last Duchess (2)
- Nick Hornby (2)
- Pat Barker (2)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (2)
- Rani and Sukh (2)
- Regeneration (2)
- Robert Browning (2)
- Singh Song! (2)
- Ted Hughes (2)
- The Child in Time (2)
- The God of Small Things (2)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (2)
- The War of the Worlds (2)
- The witches (2)
- Toni Morrison (2)
- When Will There Be Good News? (2)
- White Teeth (2)
- Zadie Smith (2)
- 1 (1)
- 2 (1)
- 5 (1)
- 19th century (1)
- 1984 (1)
- All My Sons (1)
- Andrea Levy (1)
- Animal Farm (1)
- A Poison Tree (1)
- A Room With a View (1)
- A Woman of No Importance (1)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (1)
- Caryl Churchill (1)
- Charlotte Mew (1)
- David Grant (1)
- Desdemona (1)
- Dr Lanyon (1)
- Dylan Thomas (1)
- E.M. Forster (1)
- Enduring Love (1)
- Free! (1)
- Gangsta Rap (1)
- George Eliot (1)
- Grace Nichols (1)
- Hard Times (1)
- Harper Lee (1)
- Henry IV Part I (1)
- Iago (1)
- Imtiaz Dharker (1)
- Jill Paton Walsh (1)
- John Danalis (1)
- John Fowles (1)
- Journey’s End (1)
- Knowledge of Angels (1)
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1)
- Love’s Philosophy (1)
- Mildred D. Taylor (1)
- Nettles (1)
- Northanger Abbey (1)
- Our Country’s Good (1)
- Owen Sheers (1)
- Ozymandias (1)
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1)
- Philip Larkin (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- Pride and Prejudice (1)
- R.C. Sheriff (1)
- Ralph (1)
- Riding the Black Cockatoo (1)
- Roddy Doyle (1)
- Roddy Doyle (1)
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (1)
- Romantic (1)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
- Sarah Waters (1)
- Silas Marner (1)
- Small Island (1)
- Sonnet 116 (1)
- The Crucible (1)
- The Farmer’s Bride (1)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1)
- The Great Gatsby (1)
- The Little Stranger (1)
- The Manhunt (1)
- The Merchant's Tale (1)
- Theresa Breslin (1)
- The Witches (1)
- Timberlake Wertenbaker (1)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
- Top Girls (1)
- Tybalt (1)
- Vernon Scannell (1)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (1)
- White Poppies (1)
- William Blake (1)
Resource type
- (-) Revision (515)
- Student activity (200)
- Worksheet (147)
- Exam preparation (84)
- Game/quiz (75)
- Starter/Plenary (38)
- Teaching ideas (30)
- Templates (30)
- Complete lesson (28)
- Role play/debate/discussion (20)
- Display/posters (13)
- Assessment (10)
- Homework (9)
- Differentiated (6)
- Knowledge organisers (6)
- Scheme of work (1)
Creative writing
Browse this rich collection of English teaching resources, teaching ideas, templates and creative writing lessons to develop students' descriptive writing, narrative writing and creative writing skills. You'll find compelling picture prompts, supportive word banks and carefully scaffolded resources to engage even the most reluctant of student writers.
There are fun and eclectic lesson ideas, downloadable worksheets and comprehensive PowerPoints for a range of exciting creative writing and short story tasks based on journeys, the senses, on sculpture, on the weather and even 'magical doors'!
Explore point of view, narrative structure and the features of a ‘good story’ as well as how to develop a main character with a range of creative writing tasks to hone students’ descriptive writing skills. You’ll also find resources on using metaphors and similes and varying sentence structure to make their writing more engaging.
Perfect for key stage 3 English classes and GCSE English Language learners.
You might also like our non-fiction writing activities for KS3 English.