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This is a writing task designed for my GCSE English Language resist class to help prepare them for Paper 1, question 5 but it could be used to teach any kind of fiction writing.

It includes clear and specific instructions for what to include in their writing (derived from the mark scheme) and three ready-to-go story plans.

Some of my students are blocked from practicing writing because they struggle to think of ideas on the spot and some of them by the time they’ve planned have run out of concentration. Some of them are also good with ideas but need to focus more on how they’re putting their words and sentences together.

I use this in conjunction with tasks designed to aid planning and structure, but this particular task where they’re already given a step by step plan of a story focuses them on how they are writing rather than what they’re writing and takes away any anxiety about the content they’re writing about being ‘wrong’.

For more writing tasks and full lessons that incorporate these tasks please have a look at my other resources :)