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Resources to support telling and writing stories in KS3
Added 06 Sep 2022 | Updated 08 Sep 22
Storytelling can take many forms, from fictional to journalistic to autobiographical. Here you will find a range of tips, ideas and resources to support with telling and writing stories across a variety of genres.
Establish context, purpose and audience
Three things determine the type of writing required for any curriculum task: context, purpose and audience. Ensure that students explore the following when composing stories:
- Context : the subject and topic
- Purpose : why am I writing? What makes this a compelling story for my audience?
- Audience : who am I writing to or for?
Deconstruct model texts
When composing stories, it's crucial that students are exposed to high-quality models, through which they can analyse elements such as text structure. As part of our Improving writing in secondary subjects professional development course, we recommend that in any subject teachers use model texts to demonstrate text organisation and deconstruct language features with students.
Focus on vocabulary
Writing provides the perfect opportunity for students to enhance and expand their vocabulary - through both exploring vocabulary use in model texts and expanding their own vocabulary use within their own writing. Download our free vocabulary activities resource (from the available files section of this page) for a host of activity ideas to develop your students' vocabulary.
Provide a stimulus
When asking students to reflect on and tell their own personal stories, about real-life events, or issues that matter to them, it can help to provide them with a stimulus or prompt, for example, a memorable object or place. Explore our free Life Stories Top Ten resource for lots of ideas about how to engage students in personal storytelling - as well as their families.
Make it fun!
Develop your students' confidence ahead of story writing by playing creative warm-up games and offer students a safe pace to explore their ideas. Visit our free Everybody Writes resource for lots of writing games ideas.
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This wonderful collection of fun and engaging classroom activities and resources will help KS3 and GCSE students to develop their own imaginative, narrative and creative writing skills.
From planning their ideas and thinking about plot, character and setting, to exploring other forms and genres including poetry and drama scripts, you'll find a range of resources to get them off to a flying start.
Try our KS4 Creative writing teaching pack for a whole term of lesson ideas and resources to target 'problem' areas of writing.
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Creative writing KS3 – Images & sticky notes lesson plan
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This creative writing KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing.
Often students will say ‘I don’t know what to write’. The format of this lesson eradicates that barrier to learning and creativity. Use it to teach this important skill to students of all abilities (including your mixed-ability groups).
The collaborative nature of this lesson (students read what the person before them has written) means they learn from and inspire each other.
It’s a kinesthetic creative writing KS3 lesson. Students move around using a range of resources. The strict timing element means it’s extremely fast-paced.
While getting students moving around the classroom (especially in classes where behaviour is challenging ) can be daunting, the speed of the task keeps students focused. It results in students producing some fantastic work without too much teacher talk or instruction needed.
You do need some resources, but for all the coloured sticky notes required, it is well worth the effort.
You can adapt this lesson to other subjects. This idea can even be a revision tool, where the pictures you pass around represent different topics students have already studied.
Noga Verber has taught English and drama at Chestnut Grove Academy in South London for three years. She is also a head of house and the director of the school musical. Browse more free KS3 English reading and writing lesson plans.
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