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Creative writing prompts – Best activities and resources for KS1 and KS2 English
Fed up of reading 'and then…', 'and then…' in your children's writing? Try these story starters, structures, worksheets and other fun writing prompt resources for primary pupils…
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- Improving creative writing
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What is creative writing?
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, ‘creative’ is ‘producing or using original and unusual ideas’, yet I would argue that in writing there’s no such thing as an original idea – all stories are reincarnations of ones that have gone before.
As writers we learn to be expert magpies – selecting the shiny words, phrases and ideas from other stories and taking them for our own.
Interestingly, the primary national curriculum does not mention creative writing or writing for pleasure at all and is focused on the skill of writing.
Therefore, if writing creatively and for pleasure is important in your school, it must be woven into your vision for English.
“Interestingly, the Primary National Curriculum does not mention creative writing or writing for pleasure at all”
Creative writing in primary schools can be broken into two parts:
- writing with choice and freedom
- developing story writing
Writing with choice and freedom allows children to write about what interests and inspires them.
Developing story writing provides children with the skills they need to write creatively. In primary schools this is often taught in a very structured way and, particularly in the formative years, can lack opportunities for children to be creative.
Children are often told to retell a story in their own words or tweak a detail such as the setting or the main character.
Below you’ll find plenty of creative writing prompts, suggestions and resources to help develop both writing for choice and freedom and developing story writing in your classroom.
How to develop opportunities for writing with choice and freedom
Here’s an interesting question to consider: if the curriculum disappeared but children still had the skills to write, would they?
I believe so – they’d still have ideas they wanted to convey and stories they wanted to share.
One of my children enjoys writing and the other is more reluctant to mark make when asked to, but both choose to write. They write notes for friends, song lyrics, stories and even business plans.
So how can we develop opportunities to write with choice and freedom in our classrooms?
Early Years classrooms are full of opportunities for children to write about what interests them, but it’s a rarer sight in KS1 and 2.
Ask children what they want to write about
Reading for pleasure has quite rightly been prioritised in schools and the impact is clear. Many of the wonderful ideas from The Open University’s Reading For Pleasure site can be used and adapted for writing too.
For example, ask children to create a ‘writing river’ where they record the writing they choose to do across a week.
If pupils like writing about a specific thing, consider creating a short burst writing activity linked to this. The below Harry Potter creative writing activity , where children create a new character and write a paragraph about them, is an example of this approach.
If you have a spare 20 minutes, listen to the below conversation with Lucy and Jonathan from HeadteacherChat and Alex from LinkyThinks . They discuss the importance of knowing about children’s interests but also about being a writer yourself.
'The confidence Crisis in Creative Writing.' Lucy and Jonathan chat with Alex from @LinkyThinks https://t.co/VClYxiQhcf — HeadteacherChat 🙋🏻♂️ 👂 (@Headteacherchat) August 9, 2022
Plan in time to pursue personal writing projects
There are lots of fantastic ideas for developing writing for pleasure in your classrooms on The Writing For Pleasure Centre’s website .
One suggestion is assigning time to pursue personal writing projects. The Meadows Primary School in Madeley Heath, Staffordshire, does this termly and provides scaffolds for children who may find the choice daunting.
Give children a choice about writing implements and paper
Sometimes the fun is in the novelty. Are there opportunities within your week to give pupils some choices about the materials they use? Ideas could include:
- little notebooks
- a roll of paper
- felt tip pens
- gel pens
Write for real audiences
This is a great way to develop children’s motivation to write and is easy to do.
It could be a blog, a class newsletter or pen pals. Look around in your community for opportunities to write – the local supermarket, a nearby nursing home or the library are often all good starting points.
Have a go yourself
The most successful teachers of story writing write fiction themselves.
Many adults do not write creatively and trying to teach something you have not done yourself in a long time can be difficult. By having a go you can identify the areas of difficulty alongside the thought processes required.
Treat every child as an author
Time is always a premium in the classroom but equally, we’re all fully aware of the impact of verbal feedback.
One-to-one writing conferences have gained in popularity in primary classrooms and it’s well-worth giving these a go if you haven’t already.
Set aside time to speak to each child about the writing they’re currently constructing. Discuss what’s going well and what they could develop.
If possible, timetable these one-to-one discussions with the whole class throughout the year (ideally more often, if possible).
Free KS2 virtual visit and resources
Bring best-selling children’s authors directly into your classroom with Author In Your Classroom. It’s a brilliant free podcast series made especially for schools, and there’s loads of free resources to download too.
More than 20 authors have recorded episodes so far, including:
- Sir Michael Morpurgo
- Dame Jacqueline Wilson
- Michael Rosen
- Joseph Coelho
- Lauren Child
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Cressida Cowell
- Robin Stevens
Creative writing exercises
Use these inspiring writing templates from Rachel Clarke to inspire pupils who find it difficult to get their thoughts down on the page. The structured creative writing prompts and activities, which range from writing a ‘through the portal story’ to a character creation activity that involves making your own Top Trumps style cards, will help inexperienced writers to get started.
Storyboard templates and story structures
Whether it’s short stories, comic strips or filmmaking, every tale needs the right structure to be told well. This storyboard template resource will help your children develop the skills required to add that foundation to their creative writing.
Ten-minute activities
The idea of fitting another thing into the school day can feel overwhelming, so start with small creative writing activities once a fortnight. Below are a few ideas that have endless possibilities.
Character capers
You need a 1-6 dice for this activity. Roll it three to find out who your character is, what their personality is and what job they do, then think about the following:
- Can you draw them?
- What questions would you ask them if you met them?
- What might their answers be?
- If they were the main character in a story, what might happen?
Download our character capers worksheet .
Setting soup
In this activity pupils Look at the four photos and fill in a mind map for one of the settings, focusing on what they’d see, hear, feel, smell and feel in that location. They then write an ingredients list for their setting, such as:
- A dollop of calmness
- A drizzle of a beautiful sunset
- A generous helping of a still ocean
- Copious amounts of smooth sand
- A spattering of lush, green palm trees
Download our setting soup worksheet .
Use consequences to generate story ideas
Start with a game of drawing consequences – this is a great way of building a new character.
Next, play a similar game but write a story. Here’s an example . Download our free writing consequences template to get started.
Roll and write a story
For this quick activity, children roll a dice three times to choose a setting and two characters – for example, a theme park, an explorer and a mythical creature. They then use the results to create an outline for a story.
Got more than ten minutes? Use the outline to write a complete story. Alternatively, use the results to create a book cover and blurb or, with a younger group of children, do the activity as a class then draw or write about the outcome.
Download our roll and write a story worksheet .
Scavenger hunt
Give children something to hide and tell them they have to write five clues in pairs, taking another pair from one clue to the next until the 5th clue leads them to the hidden item.
For a challenge, the clues could be riddles.
Set up pen pals. This might be with children in another country or school, or it could simply be with another class.
What do pupils want to say or share? It might be a letter, but it could be a comic strip, poem or pop-up book.
You need a log-in to access Authorfy’s content but it’s free. The website is crammed with every children’s author imaginable, talking about their books and inspirations and setting writing challenges. It’s a great tool to inspire and enthuse.
There are lots of great resources and videos on Oxford Owl which are free to access and will provide children with quick bursts of creativity.
Creative writing ideas for KS2
This free Pie Corbett Ultimate KS2 fiction collection is packed with original short stories from the man himself, and a selection of teaching resources he’s created to accompany each one.
Each creative writing activity will help every young writer get their creative juices flowing and overcome writer’s block.
WAGOLL text types
Support pupils when writing across a whole range of text types and genres with these engaging writing packs from Plazoom , differentiated for KS1, LKS2 and UKS2.
They feature:
- model texts (demonstrating WAGOLL for learners)
- planning guides
- writing templates
- themed paper
Each one focuses on a particular kind of text, encouraging children to make appropriate vocabulary, register and layout choices, and produce the very best writing of which they are capable, which can be used for evidence of progress.
If you teach KS2, start off by exploring fairy tales with a twist , or choose from 50+ other options .
Scaffolds and plot types
A great way to support children with planning stories with structures, this creative writing scaffolds and plot types resource pack contains five story summaries, each covering a different plot type, which they can use as a story idea.
It has often been suggested that there are only seven basic plots a story can use, and here you’ll find text summaries for five of these:
- Overcoming the monster
- Rags to riches
- Voyage and return
After familiarising themselves with these texts, children can adapt and change these stories to create tales of their own.
Use story starters
If some children still need a bit of a push in the right direction, check out our 6 superb story starters to develop creative writing skills . This list features a range of free story starter resources, including animations (like the one above) and even the odd iguana…
Use word mats to inspire
Help pupils to write independently by providing them with helpful vocabulary sheets that they can pick and choose from when doing their own creative writing.
Download our free creative writing word mats here , including:
- Create a spooky atmosphere
- Write an adventure story
- Describe a character’s appearance
- Describe a character’s personality
- Describe how a character moves
- Describe how a character speaks
- Describe a mythical beast
Creative writing pictures
Using images as writing prompts is nothing new, but it’s fun and effective.
Pobble 365 has an inspiring photo for every day of the year. These are great inspiration for ten-minute free writing activities. You need to log in to Pobble but access to Pobble 365 (the pictures) is free.
Choose two pictures as prompts (you can access every picture for the year in the calendar) or provide children with a range of starter prompts.
For example, with the photo above you might ask children to complete one of the following activities:
- Continue the story using the story starters on Pobble.
- Write down what your dream day would include.
- Create a superhero called Dolphin Dude.
- If you didn’t need to breath when swimming underwater, what would you do? Write about your dream day. It might include rivers, lakes, swimming pools, the seas or oceans.
- If you had a super power, what would it be and why?
The Literacy Shed
Website The Literacy Shed has a page dedicated to interesting pictures for creative writing . There are winter scenes, abandoned places, landscapes, woodlands, pathways, statues and even flying houses.
The Literacy Shed also hosts video clips for inspiring writing and is choc-full of ways to use them. The Night Zookeeper Shed is well worth a visit. There are short videos, activities and resources to inspire creative writing.
Once Upon a Picture
Once Upon a Picture is another site packed with creative writing picture prompts , but its focus is more on illustrations than photography, so its offering is great for letting little imaginations soar.
Each one comes with questions for kids to consider, or activities to carry out.
How to improve creative writing
Developing story writing .
If you decided to climb a mountain, in order to be successful you’d need to be well-equipped and you’d need to have practised with smaller climbs first.
The same is true of creative writing: to be successful you need to be well-equipped with the skills of writing and have had plenty of opportunities to practise.
As a teachers you need to plan with this in mind – develop a writing journey which allows children to learn the art of story writing by studying stories of a similar style, focusing on how effects are created and scaffolding children’s writing activities so they achieve success.
- Choose a focus When planning, consider what skill you want to embed for children and have that as your focus throughout the sequence of learning. For example, if you teach Y4 you might decide to focus on integrating speech into stories. When your class looks at a similar story, draw their attention to how the author uses speech and discuss how it advances the action and shows you more about the characters. During the sequence, your class can practise the technical side of writing speech (new line/new speaker, end punctuation, etc). When they come to write their own story, your success criteria will be focused on using speech effectively. By doing this, the skill of using speech is embedded. If you chose to focus on ALL the elements of story writing that a Y4 child should be using (fronted adverbials, conjunctions, expanded noun phrases, etc), this might lead to cognitive overload.
- Plan in chances to be creative Often teachers plan three writing opportunities: one where children retell the story, one with a slight difference (eg a different main character) and a final one where children invent their own story. However, in my experience, the third piece of writing often never happens because children have lost interest or time has run out. If we equip children with the skills, we must allow them time to use them.
- Utilise paired writing Children love to collaborate and by working in pairs it actually helps develop independence. Give it a go!
- Find opportunities for real audiences Nothing is more motivating than knowing you will get to share your story with another class, a parent or the local nursing home.
- Use high-quality stimuli If your focus is speech, find a great novel for kids that uses speech effectively. There are so many excellent children’s stories available that there’s no need to write your own.
- Use magpie books This is somewhere where children can note down any great words or phrases they find from their reading. It will get them reading as a writer.
Below is a rough outline of a planning format that leads to successful writing opportunities.
This sequence of learning takes around three weeks but may be longer or shorter, depending on the writing type.
Before planning out the learning, decide on up to three key focuses for the sequence. Think about the potential learning opportunities that the stimuli supports (eg don’t focus on direct speech if you’re writing non-chronological reports).
Ways to overcome fear of creative writing
Many children are inhibited in their writing for a variety of reasons. These include the all-too-familiar ‘fear of the blank page’ (“I can’t think of anything to write about!” is a common lament), trying to get all the technical aspects right as they compose their work (a sense of being ‘overwhelmed’), and the fact that much of children’s success in school is underpinned by an ethos of competitiveness and comparison, which can lead to a fear of failure and a lack of desire to try.
Any steps we can take to diminish these anxieties means that children will feel increasingly motivated to write, and so enjoy their writing more. This in turn will lead to the development of skills in all areas of writing, with the broader benefits this brings more generally in children’s education.
Here are some easily applied and simple ideas from author and school workshop provider Steve Bowkett for boosting self-confidence in writing.
- Keep it creative Make creative writing a regular activity. High priority is given to spelling, punctuation and grammar, but these need a context to be properly understood. Teaching the technicalities of language without giving children meaningful opportunities to apply them is like telling people the names of a car engine’s parts without helping them learn to drive.
- Model the behaviour In other words, when you want your class to write a story or poem, have a go yourself and be upfront about the difficulties you encounter in trying to translate your thoughts into words.
- Go easy on the grammar Encourage children to write without them necessarily trying to remember and apply a raft of grammatical rules. An old saying has it that we should ‘learn the rules well and then forget them’. Learning how to use punctuation, for instance, is necessary and valuable, but when children try and apply the rules consciously and laboriously as they go along, the creative flow can be stifled. Consideration of rules should, however, be an important element of the editing process.
- Keep assessment focused Where you do require children to focus on rules during composition, pick just one or two they can bear in mind as they write. Explain that you will mark for these without necessarily correcting other areas of GaPS. Not only will this save you time, but also children will be spared the demotivating sight of their writing covered in corrections (which many are unlikely to read).
- Value effort If a child tries hard but produces work that is technically poor, celebrate his achievement in making an effort and apply the old ‘three stars and a wish’ technique to the work by finding three points you can praise followed by noting one area where improvements can be made.
- Leave room for improvement Make clear that it’s fine for children to change their minds, and that there is no expectation for them to ‘get it all right’ first time. Show the class before and after drafts from the work of well-known poets and extracts from stories. Where these have been hand written, they are often untidy and peppered with crossings out and other annotations as the writers tried to clarify their thoughts. If you have the facilities, invite children to word process their stories using the ‘track changes’ facility. Encourage children to show their workings out, as you would do in maths.
- Don’t strive for perfection Slay the ‘practice makes perfect’ dragon. It’s a glib phrase and also an inaccurate one. Telling children that practice makes better is a sound piece of advice. But how could we ever say that a story or poem is perfect? Even highly experienced authors strive to improve.
- Come back later Leave some time – a couple of days will do – between children writing a piece and editing or redrafting it. This is often known as the ‘cooling off’ period. Many children will find that they come back to their work with fresh eyes that enable them to pick out more errors, and with new ideas for improving the piece structurally.
- Try diamond 9 Use the diamond ranking tool to help children assess their own work. Give each child some scraps of paper or card and have them write on each an aspect of their writing, such as creating strong characters, controlling pace and tension, describing places and things, using ‘punchy’ verbs etc. Supply these elements as necessary, but allow children some leeway to think of examples of their own. Now ask each child to physically arrange these scraps according to how effectively they were used in the latest piece of work. So two writing elements that a child thinks are equally strong will be placed side by side, while an aspect of the work a child is pleased with will be placed above one that he / she is not so happy with.
- Keep it varied Vary the writing tasks. By this I mean it’s not necessary to ask children always to write a complete story. Get them to create just an opening scene for example, or a vivid character description, or an exciting story climax. If more-reluctant writers think they haven’t got to write much they might be more motivated to have a go. Varying the tasks also helps to keep the process of writing fresh, while the results can form resource banks (of characters, scenes, etc) for future use.
- Help each other Highlight the idea that everyone in the class, including yourself, forms a community of writers. Here, difficulties can be aired, advice can be shared and successes can be celebrated as we all strive to ‘dare to do it and do our best’.
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KS2 RESOURCE PACK: Creative Writing with Jacqueline Wilson
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Jacqueline Wilson has written over 100 books – so now it is over to you! This pack includes creative writing advice from Jacqueline Wilson, broken into five sections so you can create your story over a series of lessons.
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Write at least 2 pages using the following title.
In your writing you could:
- Explain the situation;
- Describe the thoughts and feelings of the person or people involved;
- Try to make your reader share the experience through your choice of words and sentences.
PLAN YOUR ANSWER!
In your writing you should:
- Make your writing interesting for your reader – use verbs, adverbs and adjectives to achieve effects;
- Present your ideas clearly, organising your writing into paragraphs;
- Write using accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation;
- Include an interesting beginning and ending for your writing.
In your writing, try to use the following:
- Alliteration
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Task: To complete a piece of creative writing.
What you need to do: Choose from one of the following story starters/writing prompts. You can write in any type of genre: A letter, a poem, a story, a short story, a play, a blog, a diary, a newspaper report, persuasive writing Remember that you need to include some powerful vocabulary but just start writing and have fun!
Writing prompts/starters:
You’re digging in your garden and find a fist-sized nugget of gold.
The asteroid was hurtling straight for Earth…
There’s a guy sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper…
He turned the key in the lock and opened the door. To his horror, he saw…
Silvery flakes drifted down, glittering in the bright light of the harvest moon. The blackbird swooped down…
The detective saw his opportunity. He grabbed the waitress’s arm and said…
There are three children sitting on a log near a stream. One of them looks up at the sky and says…
You find a door at the end of the garden. What do you do?
And you thought dragons didn’t exist…
Write about nature.
You walk into your house and it’s completely different — furniture, decor, all changed. And nobody’s home.
Write about one (or both) of your parents. Start with “I was born…”
The most beautiful smile I ever saw…
Here is a poem using metaphors about James Bond
He is a bar of dark chocolate,
A smooth black cat’s coat,
An exotic fruit cocktail,
A silver Porsche disappearing into the distance.
He is a plate of caviar,
A blade on a knife,
A frothy cappuccino,
A piece of black silk.
He is a midnight alarm,
A tiger disguised as a pussycat,
A jet plane,
A perfect day.
Your task is to write a poem in the same style about either a fictional character or a celebrity. It could be about a character from a book or film. It could be a celebrity from sport, the music industry, the film industry or even the Royal family.
Think about these questions and write some interesting metaphors: What do they look like? What do they do? What are they famous for? What is their character like?
How to Play a Favourite Game
our school has been asked to make a book of instructions for children’s favourite games. These might be games you play at home or school. It could be a game you enjoy playing with your friends. It must not be a game you play on the computer.
Your task is to write a set of exact instructions to explain how to play your favourite game. Remember, the person who will be reading your instructions will never have played this game before.
Planning ideas - Title of the game, equipment needed, aim of the game, step-by-step details
The Electric Skateboard
You have been asked to promote a new type of skateboard. It is powered by an electric motor and has rechargeable batteries. It is operated from a wireless hand controller.
Your task is to write a persuasive article for a parent’s magazine explaining the functions and advantages of the electric skateboard. You need to make it sound like the best Christmas present any child could ever want!
Planning Questions
What are its uses? How is it unique? Why is it fun? Cost and maintenence? Features?
Collect words and phrases to help you persuade parents to buy this skateboard.
The Argument
A group of friends, who are slightly older than you, have asked if you can come to town on Saturday. Your parents are not keen for you to go. Continue the play script below
(Emma and Mum are in the kitchen.)
Emma: Mum! Anna and Henna are going to town on Saturday. They asked if I could go too. Is that O.K.?
(Mum has a concerned look on her face.)
Mum: I don’t think so dear, you’re much too young.
(Emma pleads.)
Emma: But Mum, I’ll be fine.
(Dad enters the room.)
Dad: What are you two talking about?
Planning ideas - Think about the characters in the play. What are they like? What are the arguments for and against Emma going to town?
Time Travel
One evening you go to your computer and accidentally press one of the keys you have never pressed before. Suddenly you are transported into a different time! Your task is to write about where you travel to, what the place is like, who you meet and how you manage to get home again.
Where did you travel to and what form did your transport/journey take? (Remember: You can travel back or forwards in time.) What is the place you visit like? Who do you meet? What are they like? How do you manage to get back home?
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Creative writing resources for young people
Exploring and writing poetry for 5 to 11 years (key stage 1 and 2).
Commissioned by Young Norfolk Arts and the National Centre for Writing as part of the Young Norfolk Arts Festival 2020, ‘The Wish’ is a poem designed to be accessible for Primary age children. This resource has been designed to support KS1/2 teachers in the teaching of reading and writing poetry in the classroom. It contains sample exercises that you can use in your own classrooms, as well as extension activities for older or more capable students.
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Creative writing prompts.
Each of our simple creative writing prompts is designed to give ideas for stories, develop characters, explore point of view, kickstart dialogue or respond to a text creatively. We hope you find our selection useful and inspiring, and if not, please tell us! If you have any creative prompts you’d like to share to add to the list please email [email protected]
View our simple creative writing prompts here
The fiercest light – war poetry resource pack.
The resource pack contains:
- Information on WWI and War poetry learning resources
- The poetry produced as part of the ‘Fierce Light’ project
- In-text glossaries and reference guides
- Brief biographical profiles on the poets
- Suggested classroom discussion questions
- Suggested activities.
Download the resource pack here
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Never Ending Stories Pack
Never Ending Stories is a colourful storytelling pack designed to help you to create and share stories with your child. Inside you will find lots of ideas, including: how to find inspiration for stories; how to find time to tell stories together; how to create physical spaces for stories; and how to tell a great story. Download it here.
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Further creative writing activity packs for use in the classroom and home-schooling are coming soon. These include activities based around Norwich as a UNESCO City of Literature and resources featuring contemporary writers.
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Sunday 12th July
Some Pobble ideas this week to inspire you. I have put in two different options.
- Night_quest.pdf
- The_Tree_Door.pdf
Sunday 5th July
Lots of you seem to enjoy the writing starters that use a film so I have added another one for this week. With a set of activities that are linked to it. Some activities are writing and some are other ideas.
Ruckus 2013
Ruckus is a short, stylized, narrative group animation by CVA students: Ben Davis, Jared Auty, Luke Gravett, Peter May, and Peter Matev and CAA students: Jam...
Ruckus Activities
- Ruckus KS2 Activity Pack - Rucks KS2 Activity Pack.pdf
Ideas to Help with Wanted Poster Description
- Wanted - How to put together a description..ppt
You could design and make a 'Wanted Poster'
Make sure your poster has...
A really great description of the person/people who are wanted.
Paints them in a a bad light.
Be specific about what they have done and why they are wanted.
Let's people know how dangerous they are.
Who to tell if someone has information.
If there is a reward and what they reward is.
I have added a template below that you could print or use to create your own on blank paper.
Also if you want your paper to look old you could tear the edges and colour it with cold tea or coffee (no milk in it) Ask a parent to help you if you want to do that.
Make sure that your poster isn't just a picture but that you write as well.
Wanted Poster Background
- Plain Wanted.pdf
- 201_dangerouspet.pdf
Sunday 28th June
A video to watch this week and then ideas to follow to practise writing. A simple and heart-warming story.
Lighthouse (Animation)
Lighthouse (2008), animated short movie by Charlie Short and Ming Hsiung made for the Responsibility Project campaign for Liberty Mutual. Animation director:...
Lighthouse Activities
- The Lighthouse KS2 Activity Pack - KS2 Activity Pack.pdf
Saturday 20th June
In case you hadn't noticed I've gone a bit lightning themed this week. Check out the picture and activities below.
Lightning Never Strikes Twice
- 339_Lightning_never_strikes_twice.pdf
- creative-writing-images.pdf
- 244_The_lighthouse.pdf
Sunday 7th June
Do you love Meercats? I do. So here is some writing inspired by a Meercat adventure. Watch the film first and then use the document to find ideas to write about. No need to finish it all in one day - there is quite a lot there and could be done over several days.
Catch It - ESMA 2015
Discover more ESMA animation movies by subscribing: bit.ly/ESMAmovies Découvrez encore plus de films d'animation de l'ESMA en vous abonnant: bit.ly/ESMAmovie...
Catch It Activities
- Catch It KS2 Activity Pack - KS2 Activity Pack.pdf
Or alternatively...
Use the image below to create or retell a fairy/fantasy story. Open the PDF to see it.
Think about these questions...
Who is the knight?
How has he reached the tower?
It is a princess in the tower?
Could it be a witch in disguise?
Does the princes need or want to be rescued?
Will you write a traditional version of a fairy tale you know like Rapunzel?
Will you write something with a modern twist - think of stories like 'Zog' by Julia Donaldson (if you haven't seen this it is available to watch on BBC iplayer - for free), or have you read 'Princess Smarty Pants' or 'Prince Cinders' by Babette Cole that both have a modern twist on traditional tales.
Princess in a Tower
- castle-turret-writing-frame-3170-60-160810-57ab0c50ca2f8.pdf
Sunday 31st May
Something fun!
Some of you may remember this film from September (can you remember all that way back?)
Use it to refresh yourself about how to add suspense with your characters. What they are thinking and how they are feeling. Remember we want to be more sophisticated and 'show don't tell'.
Instead of: 'It was dark and he was scared' try something like...
His heart was in his throat and his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth as he crept through the gloom.
Watch the clip from the start and stop at 2m 58s
https://www.literacyshed.com/the-egyptian-pyramids.html
What happens – how will you describe the events in order to make it interesting?
You may want to create a word bank, like we do together in class, first to help you think about some great vocabulary.
I have put the pyramids below that you can download to help you think about punctuation conjunctions, vocabulary and openers. Remember you need to aim for the larger sections of the triangles.
Things to think about when you are writing...
- Choices of verbs, adverbs and adjectives that interest and excite the reader.
- Write in the past tense and stay in the past tense throughout.
- Write in the 3 rd person all the way through - he, him, his.
- Use expanded noun phrases.
- Use a fronted adverbial.
- Show don’t tell how the character is feeling.
Alternatively....
Try writing it in the 1 st person.
Imagine you are the character and write an entry about what happened in your diary.
- Write in the 1 st person all the way through – I, me, my, mine.
- Show don’t tell how you felt.
- What were you searching for?
- Did you regret coming? Were you determined?
Whichever one you choose come back to your writing the next day and...
- Read it aloud – does it make sense?
- Punctuation is correct?
- Atmosphere – choices of verbs and adjectives to create excitement and interest.
- Do we know how the character feels? How do we know?
- Have you checked your spellings?
- Do we know how the character feels?
- Have you stayed in the past tense all the way through?
- If you wrote in 3rd person have you stayed in 3rd person or if you write in 1st person have you stayed in 1st person?
Punctuation, Openers, Vocabulary and Conjunctions
- t-l-721-vcop-vocabulary-openers-conjunctions-punctuation-pyramid-pack-a4_ver_3.pdf
Explanation Texts
- Tips for Explanation.pdf
- explanation_watercycle.doc
- cyclones-explanation-writing-sample_ver_1.pdf
Alphabet Poem
- Alphabet poem.pdf
- Post Card Poems.pdf
What can you remember about persuasive writing? Can you cast you mind all the way back to when we were persuading people to join the Roman Army and Celtic Rebellion?
Ideas to write persuasively about could be...
Create an amazing toy design - draw it and then write the advert to persuade others to buy it.
Pick your favourite toy or game at home - can you persuade someone why it is the best?
What is so fantastic about football/netball/swimming - any sport. Persuade others why they should play.
How To Write a Film Review
- write a film review.docx
Something Different
Watch this film about 2 bandits - it's a cowboy/western style.
https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/ruckus-7-9-
Then there are some different ideas that you could try after you've watched it. There are lots on the document so you could try a few different ones over a week or so.
- Ruckus 7-9 - Teaching Resources.pdf
Wednesday 29th April
I have added the Year 3 Talk for Writing Unit called Troll today. Although it is Year 3 it is good revision as the Year 3 and 4 curriculum work over two year so it revisits some of our objectives. I am sure you could always level up to Year 4 writing as well :)
It leads you through all the activities and all you need if some paper and a pencil. Or you can always type on a computer if that is a possibility.
There are lots of different activities just like we would do together at school and I would recommend that you work on it over a week or maybe a little longer - completing part of the unit each day.
I have added another 3 Pobble writing idea sheets that you could use as well.
- Y3-Unit Trolls.pdf
- Y4-Unit Talk for Writing.pdf
- 059_Mr_Wolf.pdf
- 069_A_giant_s_game.pdf
- 181_Magic_biscuits.pdf
- 324_A_mysterious_shadow.pdf
- 334_The_Writer.pdf
- 185_An_unexpected_adventure.pdf
- 205_The_Bear_Necessities.pdf
- 061_Thank_you.pdf
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