Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (4886)
- Literature (971)
- (-) Modern prose (971)
- Reading (971)
- Prose (970)
- English (969)
- Language (6)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (5)
- Punctuation (3)
- Drama (2)
- Form and structure (2)
- Language analysis (2)
- Sentence construction (2)
- Themes (2)
- Varying sentences (2)
- Commas (1)
- Direct speech (1)
- Independent reading (1)
- Planning essays (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Reading skills (1)
- Writing for purpose and audience (1)
- Writing skills (1)
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (2478)
- Post-1900 (359)
- Fiction (196)
- Fiction (164)
- Of Mice and Men (71)
- John Steinbeck (69)
- Modern (56)
- Angela Carter (53)
- Robert Swindells (49)
- William Golding (41)
- Lord of the Flies (39)
- Ian McEwan (37)
- Margaret Atwood (36)
- George Orwell (33)
- Wise Children (33)
- Roddy Doyle (32)
- Harper Lee (31)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (31)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (27)
- Animal Farm (26)
- The Great Gatsby (26)
- Stone Cold (25)
- Susan Hill (23)
- The Woman in Black (23)
- History (22)
- Wilderness (22)
- History (20)
- The Bloody Chamber (20)
- Gothic (19)
- Michael Frayn (19)
- Spies (19)
- The Child in Time (19)
- Artemis Fowl (18)
- David Almond (18)
- Eoin Colfer (18)
- Enduring Love (16)
- Skellig (16)
- Alice Walker (15)
- Arundhati Roy (15)
- Khaled Hosseini (15)
- The Color Purple (15)
- The God of Small Things (15)
- About a Boy (14)
- Andrea Levy (14)
- Nick Hornby (14)
- Small Island (14)
- Heroes (13)
- Robert Cormier (13)
- Abomination (11)
- Theresa Breslin (11)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (11)
- Lloyd Jones (10)
- Mister Pip (10)
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (10)
- Roddy Doyle (10)
- Anthony Horowitz (9)
- Morris Gleitzman (9)
- Sarah Waters (9)
- The Little Stranger (9)
- Bali Rai (8)
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (8)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (8)
- Buddy (8)
- Dai Sijie (8)
- Joe Simpson (8)
- Nigel Hinton (8)
- Rani and Sukh (8)
- The Kite Rider (8)
- Touching the Void (8)
- Across the Barricades (7)
- Anita and Me (7)
- Chinua Achebe (7)
- Cold Comfort Farm (7)
- Curley’s wife (7)
- E.M. Forster (7)
- Joan Lingard (7)
- Kate Atkinson (7)
- Meera Syal (7)
- Mildred D. Taylor (7)
- Property (7)
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (7)
- Stella Gibbons (7)
- The Kite Runner (7)
- Two Weeks with the Queen (7)
- Valerie Martin (7)
- Beloved (6)
- Gangsta Rap (6)
- John Danalis (6)
- Riding the Black Cockatoo (6)
- Sebastian Barry (6)
- Sylvia Plath (6)
- The Secret Scripture (6)
- Things Fall Apart (6)
- Toni Morrison (6)
- 1984 (5)
- Athol Fugard (5)
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum (5)
- Birdsong (5)
- Ken Kesey (5)
- L.P. Hartley (5)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (5)
- Sebastian Faulks (5)
- The Catcher in the Rye (5)
- The Go-Between (5)
- Tsotsi (5)
- A Room With a View (4)
- Bill Bryson (4)
- Blitzed (4)
- Crooks (4)
- Don’t Ask Jack (4)
- Graham Greene (4)
- Kevin Brooks (4)
- Marcus Sedgwick (4)
- Martyn Pig (4)
- Michael Morpurgo (4)
- Neil Gaiman (4)
- Notes from a Small Island (4)
- Pat Barker (4)
- Regeneration (4)
- White Teeth (4)
- Zadie Smith (4)
- Anita Desai (3)
- Brighton Rock (3)
- Fasting, Feasting (3)
- Heritage (3)
- Howard’s End (3)
- J.D. Salinger (3)
- John Fowles (3)
- Lennie (3)
- Michael Morpurgo (3)
- Stephen Davies (3)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (3)
- The Yellowcake Conspiracy (3)
- Atonement (2)
- Cirque du Freak (2)
- Daphne du Maurier (2)
- Darren Shan (2)
- Deborah Ellis (2)
- Edith Wharton (2)
- Ethan Frome (2)
- Face (2)
- Jill Paton Walsh (2)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (2)
- Knowledge of Angels (2)
- Never Let Me Go (2)
- Non-fiction (2)
- Non-fiction (2)
- Rebecca (2)
- The Breadwinner (2)
- Thomas Hardy (2)
- When Will There Be Good News? (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- Andy Mulligan (1)
- An Inspector Calls (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (1)
- Canon Fire (1)
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- Cormac McCarthy (1)
- Cosmic (1)
- David Guterson (1)
- Frank Cottrell Boyce (1)
- Geraldine McCaughrean (1)
- Holes (1)
- Iain Banks (1)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1)
- Into the Wild (1)
- J.B. Priestley (1)
- James Dashner (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- Jean Rhys (1)
- Jenny Valentine (1)
- Joseph Delaney (1)
- Louis Sachar (1)
- Maya Angelou (1)
- Michael Foreman (1)
- Mrs Dalloway (1)
- Northern Lights (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- Ralph (1)
- Slim (1)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1)
- Stephanie Meyer (1)
- The Ant Colony (1)
- The Maze Runner (1)
- The Prince of Mist (1)
- The Road (1)
- The Spook’s Apprentice (1)
- The Wasp Factory (1)
- Trash (1)
- Twilight (1)
- Virginia Woolf (1)
- War Game (1)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1)
Resource type
- Student activity (453)
- Worksheet (449)
- Complete lesson (119)
- Revision (99)
- Teaching ideas (59)
- Game/quiz (58)
- Role play/debate/discussion (57)
- Exam preparation (46)
- Starter/Plenary (39)
- Assessment (17)
- Differentiated (14)
- Scheme of work (12)
- Homework (9)
- Templates (9)
- Knowledge organisers (3)
- Lesson plan (1)
- Teaching tools and tips (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.