KS3 creative writing activities
Download this resource for free
Create an account to access thousands of teacher-created PDFs.
Help students to explore their creativity and construct original, organised and increasingly complex written responses.
What's included
- Six creative writing worksheets: Two for each year group (7, 8 and 9), featuring activities designed to develop students' confidence and creative writing skills.
- Diverse writing prompts: A range of stimuli including quotations from famous texts, newspaper headlines and visual prompts, to inspire original writing.
- Genre exploration: Structured activities that guide students to evaluate different written genres whilst developing their individual voice and writing style.
Available as a free PDF, or subscribers can access fully editable worksheets as a ZIP folder to customise and adapt for their classes.
KS3 creative writing resource
This selection of creative writing resources support students as they begin to examine the vast array of original writing possibilities which they can exploit in their written pieces throughout KS3 and KS4.
The aim of this resource is to empower students with a deeper knowledge and greater confidence as they explore techniques, tone of voice and written style in their own individual way through their writing responses. There is a variety of creative writing activities for each year group, focusing on a theme to support students as they apply their understanding of genre and create pieces that give them the space to become stronger writers.
Key features of this resource
This resource features two creative writing activity worksheets, each for years 7,8 and 9. Each worksheet includes eight activities inspired by quotations from famous texts, possible newspaper headlines for article writing, writing tasks that guide students to create a written response to an image, and word collages.
Students are guided to evaluate the key aspects of the written genre they are exploring and to produce original pieces which enable them to expand their written powers as they become more confident and bold writers.
How to use this KS3 creative writing resource
This resource is perfect for:
- Building understanding of writing techniques and original flair
- Exploring common topics to inspire richer creativity in written pieces
- Revision sessions or assessment preparation
- Reinforcing originality and creative skills at KS3
Additional KS3 creative writing resources
- First and last paragraphs - what comes in between?
- Imaginative writing: creating a scene
- Describing an image: a waterfall and a night sky
- Descriptive writing starter
- Writing imaginative texts
Browse more resources in our KS3 writing skills collection.
A sample extract from the resource:
Year 7 magic creative writing activities
1. Close your eyes and imagine you are holding an everyday object with the magical power to transport you anywhere.
Write one paragraph about the experience of being transported and a second paragraph about the magical world in which you find yourself.
2. Write a story that begins with or is inspired by this quotation from a famous text.
‘Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick!’
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
3.‘Mysterious ancient object unearthed by archaeologists under Ripon school.’
Write an article using this headline.
4. Five word challenge:
Ephemeral. Magenta. Quizzical. Gloomy. Despondent.
Look up the meanings of these five words and write the final page of a story which includes them all.
