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- The Best Creative Writing Resources For Teaching Plot And Setting In Ks3 English
10 of the Best Creative Writing Resources for Teaching Plot and Setting in KS3 English
Whether students want to create an epic adventure in a fiery inferno or tense tale in a sleepy town, make sure they create a compelling plot and a fully realised setting with these resources…
Storyboard templates
Whether it’s short stories, comic strips or filmmaking, every tale needs the right structure to be told well.
Having a beginning, middle and end may be a staple of storytelling , but alone it’s not enough, and there are many ways to tell a story.
But however you choose to write yours, one thing is constant – good stories need good structure. These storyboard template resources and activities will help your students develop the skills required to add that foundation to their creative writing.
Check out these resources here.
Year 7 English worksheets
Get to grips with descriptive writing across two lessons with these free Year 7 English worksheets which focus on a piece of text all about the jungle.
Create a spooky atmosphere
Creative writing lessons need to stimulate all of the senses and inspire students. Creative writing in the Gothic genre – spooky stories – offers a wonderful opportunity for this. This is a topic that always manages to enthuse pupils and one of the most exciting aspects is that the outcome is completely different with every group.
Giving students time for thinking and the creation of ideas is essential. This plan provides the stimulus from which a number of sessions can be developed. Subsequent periods can also focus on the development of different writing skills as required by the individual needs of a group.
Get this resource here.
Use The Hobbit to write about tunnels
In this ‘build your own adventure story’ resource students discover new lands, and overcome monsters and other obstacles.
It begins with a passage from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit , where Bilbo finds himself in a dark cave and meets Gollum for the first time. There are 10 pointers to look at to explore the passage, before student’s begin to write their own story.
It starts in a tunnel, which of course needs describing, and the other side of that they emerge in a fantasy land, which, guess what, also needs describing. They’ll also need to create maps, monsters and much more.
Download it here.
The Place as Character
This interactive resource from Eduqas offers an opening paragraph example of a story that creates a real sense of setting. Students should read through and identify the adjectives used to develop the atmosphere of the place being described.
The second section is where they give it a go themselves, writing out a descriptive passage about a place. But there are lists of adjectives they can click on to insert them into the story should they get stuck for inspiration.
Give it a try here.
Inspiring images and sticky notes
Inspiring images and endless sticky notes might be all you need to get learners producing some truly creative writing. And this lesson is one where students of all abilities (including in mixed ability groups) from Y7 to Y9 are taught engaging creative writing.
Getting students moving around the classroom (especially in classes where behaviour can be challenging) can be daunting but the speed of the task keeps students focused and can result in some fantastic work being produced without too much teacher talk or instruction needed.
This is very much a facilitation of learning and creating for the teacher. You do need a number of resources (and one way to differentiate this lesson thoroughly is to decide exactly which student will have each picture), but for all the coloured sticky notes required, it is well worth the effort.
Download this free lesson plan here.
Playing with structure
This excellent resource on Structure features sections about narrative structures, structure of stories, how you can play with structure, opening and closing a story and how narrative point of view can affect the how you structure the plot.
Dig in to all this here.
Model texts for settings
If you’re after example texts for different settings then head to Literary Wagoll where you’ll find descriptions of an alien world, a fairground, a tree house, a thunderstorm and various others.
Check out all these and more here.
Plot elements
This short and sweet resource is a handy reminder of what the ‘plot’ actually is (and how it can differ from how you choose to tell your story), and it also includes a fun little exercise based on quickly coming up with a plot based on a random word.
You’ll find it here.
Plot advice
This post features an excerpt from the book What’s the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing , and builds on the idea of what a plot is.
It also includes a short list of traditional plot types, and tips for building a compelling plot, like using momentum, creating stakes and giving the characters goals and motives.
Give it a look here.
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Winter: fiction writing activities
A lovely set of wintery-themed creative or narrative fiction writing activities, perfect for a KS3 lesson in the run-up to Christmas or on any cold winter's day!
It carefully guides students through a range of planning activities to show them how to create an effective wintery setting for their creative or narrative writing, how to craft a character, how to plan a range of literary techniques to make their writing more engaging to read and how to plot their narrative.
Includes a wintery extract from the dramatic start of Jack London's 1906 novel, White Fang, as well as a description of Scrooge from A Christmas Carol to help them to explore how writers introduce characters.
There's also a peer-assessment sheet to guide post-writing reflections and an extension or homework task to inspire further writing experiments.
An example task from the resource:
1. How to create an opening full of impact:
Read the powerful opening paragraph of a story called White Fang by Jack London (1906). Annotate the text with your ideas about the writer's use of:
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