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Get Boys Writing – Shrek-Inspired Playscript Writing Lesson (Years 3 & 4) – UPDATED for 2025 Fun, laughter and learning with Shrek This completely unique and updated resource is ideal for engaging lower KS2 pupils—especially boys—in writing through the magic of movies. Using a popular and hilarious clip from Shrek, children explore playscript features and create their own dialogue in the style of the film. Tried, tested and loved by pupils, this lesson has delivered fantastic results in observation lessons and always brings a buzz of excitement (and a few brilliant impressions) to the classroom. What’s Included: • Edited Shrek video clips for classroom use • A typed-up excerpt of the playscript linked to the video • Full lesson plan with detailed teaching notes • Worksheet to help children convert narrative text into a playscript ⸻ Lesson Overview: Starter / Whole Class Work: • Watch the specially selected Shrek video clip. • Discuss how animated characters are voiced by real actors. • Pupils follow along with a printed excerpt of the script as they watch. • Rewatch and encourage volunteers to act it out – children love doing the voices. • Identify features of a playscript together as a class. Main Activity: • Pupils are given a written version of the next part of the story (in narrative form). • Their task is to convert it into a playscript using correct format and features. • Annotate with different colours for each speaker (e.g., Shrek and Donkey). • Encourage children to continue the scene in the film’s style – creativity and humour guaranteed. ⸻ “My class absolutely loved this! The voices, the laughs, and the learning – it was a hit. Perfect for reluctant writers.” If you find this resource useful, please consider leaving a review. Your feedback helps support future updates and improvements.

I have designed a unique set of resources designed to engage children in Literacy. Also excellent for a futuristic topic. Please note this is a set of unique resources, not a unit of work or lesson plan. It is designed for teachers to ‘dip into’ as they wish or even as part of a whole school topic. There is tonnes of material and this took many hours to assemble. Resources Updated 2023 2015 was the year that in the Back to the Future films they visited the ‘future’. October was the month of ‘Back to the Future Day.’ The resources could be used as part of a thematic unit or within other units of the curriculum. Excellent for Newspapers and Non-Fiction writing opportunities in particular. Included in this resource pack… Multiple sets of Newspaper articles (edited by myself and made highly visual in worksheet form) with comprehension and activity worksheets I made for them. -Additional extension activities fitting the articles -Punctuation activity -Original trailer and Poster from the movie with activities I designed around them -The stuff the film got wrong! -Punctuation activity -Ideas for a Back to the Future week / day. -Display materials -Movie clips ‘making of’ -Hover Chase Video …and much more! Due to the popularity of this resources I have added some futuristic robot activities which tie in well with the topic! An up to the minute and current set of resources that children will love, especially boys and a brilliant way to encourage creative writing / comprehension skills as well as looking at the features of Newspapers. Designed for KS2 but could be easily differentiated for lower KS3. Please check my other resources out here… /teaching-resources/shop/dave_orritt

LO: Understand how writers portray character personality through writing. This is a lesson based on exploring the techniques a writer uses to show a characters personality and requires pupils to use the evidence from the text extract I have included from the book 'The Hobbit' it is an excellent extract featuring the character 'Gollum.' The Powerpoint I have made goes through the process of... S (speech) A (actions) D (description) Children can then annotate their text accordingly and / or draw the character with annotations. Highly adaptable for many ages. The 1970's version of the hobbit features a similar conversation on YouTube. BONUS I have included a snippet of the text from 'The Hobbit' an activity for children to highlight all the parts of the text that describe the hobbit / wizard and the house. They then draw a picture to match their highlights. The results can be compared to the artists impression I have included.