Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (1048)
- English (214)
- (-) Writing skills (214)
- Language (211)
- Writing for purpose and audience (150)
- Arguments and persuasive texts (36)
- Creative writing (33)
- Writing narrative texts (30)
- Autobiography and biography (19)
- Planning (18)
- Literature (17)
- Reading (15)
- Characters (12)
- Explanation texts (11)
- Setting (6)
- Reading skills (5)
- Using literary and rhetorical devices (5)
- Writing poetry (5)
- Instruction texts (4)
- Proofreading (4)
- Structure and paragraphs (4)
- Expressing a point of view (3)
- Plot (3)
- Comparing texts (2)
- Topical and seasonal (2)
- Accents and dialects (1)
- Character study (1)
- Comprehension (1)
- Diversity and change (1)
- Drama scripts (1)
- English (1)
- Fact and opinion (1)
- History (1)
- Language in action (1)
- Modern prose (1)
- Newspapers (1)
- Persuasive (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Prose (1)
- Recreative writing / text transformation (1)
- Research skills (1)
- Retrieval (1)
- Speaking tasks (1)
- Speeches and presentations (1)
- Spoken English (1)
- Sports (1)
- Summarise the main ideas (1)
- Terminology (1)
- Using evidence (1)
- Writing different text types (1)
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (36)
- Roald Dahl (5)
- Roald Dahl (5)
- Robert Swindells (4)
- Pre-1900 (3)
- Heritage (2)
- Theresa Breslin (2)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- David Almond (1)
- Dylan Thomas (1)
- Gothic (1)
- Malorie Blackman (1)
- Stone Cold (1)
Resource type
Exam board
Special Education Need SEND
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.