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Creative writing and fiction worksheets
Free worksheets: Creative writing and fiction, KS2
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Speech marks practice
A KS2 literacy worksheet created by a primary-school teacher to help Year 3 children practise using speech marks correctly.
Can you continue this conversation between Harry and Thenusha using the correct rules for reported speech? Remember to start each character’s speech on a new line. Use “ to open the speech. End the speech with !, ? or , and use ” to close the speech. Use a reporting clause (a verb like said, whispered or announced).
Can you continue this conversation between Harry and Thenusha using the correct rules for reported speech? Remember to start each character’s speech on a new line. Use “ to open the speech. End the speech with !, ? or , and use ” to close the speech. Use a reporting clause (a verb like said, whispered or announced).
Writing an adventure story
A Year 3 (KS2) creative writing worksheet made by a teacher to help your child practise using adjectives and powerful verbs when writing an adventure story.
Planning and writing a story set in an imaginary world
Green or barren, deserted or populated by amazing creatures – it's time to enter an imaginary world! Your child will need to write a story set in an environment of their choosing, using the planning frame to help them organise their ideas before they put pen to paper.
Writing informative text
Have your child pretend they're helping out a new boy or girl who's just arrived at their school by explaining all of the important things they'd need to know, from homework to PE.
Using descriptive words
In this worksheet, your child can practise writing sentences with descriptive words, and understand why they are more interesting to read than sentences without descriptive words.
Boosting writing with powerful verbs
This activity will help your child identify powerful verbs and practise using them to improve their writing.
Writing a story
This downloadable worksheet will help your child to develop their English skills by encouraging them to be imaginative whilst creating their own story.
Using captions
This English worksheet will help your child to write captions and complete sentences, using a full stop at the end.
Descriptive writing using the senses
A weird and wonderful new creature has been discovered and you’re one of the only people in the world to have seen it with your own eyes! Share your experience by writing a description of the creature using your senses.
Writing a riddle
A worksheet prompting your child to use descriptive phrases and rhyming words to write a riddle about an everyday object.
Picture sequencing for stories
Pictures for your child to cut out and then re-arrange into an order that makes sense. This activity supports your child's storytelling skills.
Writing your ideas with paragraphs
This worksheet requires children to imagine that they have been given a large sum of money and then use paragraphs to write about what they would do with it.
Writing descriptive sentences
This worksheet encourages children to improve sentences by adding descriptive words.
Writing descriptive statements
Encourage your child to write sentences about an outing they have been on. The sentences need to contain two pieces of information each.
Write a poster and a letter
First your child reads a story about a missing cat and then they need to design a poster with the aim of finding him. This is followed up by writing a letter to the cat asking him to come home.
Writing in the correct style
What's your child's dream holiday destination? Their task is to write a leaflet advertising it to persuade people to book their holiday there. They'll need to understand holiday-brochure writing, select the right style and write persuasively. Can their writing convince you to visit?
Letter to Father Christmas
Help your KS1 child handwrite their Christmas list with style with our Father Christmas handwriting template. The dotted font will show them how to form letters correctly and there's plenty of space to include three wished-for items! Writing this most exciting letter will also help them understand that letters have a purpose and a particular audience.
Write your own kenning
Learn all about kennings: practise using just two words words to create a highly descriptive image.
Reordering sentences
Help your child understand how to create sentences by having them rewrite these so the words are in the proper order.
Using emotive language
By using emotive language your child can manipulate readers' emotions to great effect. Can they make them sympathise with an excitable puppy or an injured toddler? (Or is that an aggressive puppy or a tormenting toddler?)
Using adjectives for effect
This advanced worksheet was created by a teacher for KS2 and KS3 children to explain how adjectives can be used for effect in their writing.
Different adjectives can completely transform a piece of writing, as your child will find out when they write two contradictory reviews of a pop concert. Will they judge the singer as 'cool' or 'cold'?
Different adjectives can completely transform a piece of writing, as your child will find out when they write two contradictory reviews of a pop concert. Will they judge the singer as 'cool' or 'cold'?
Simile and metaphor
Can your child identify similes and metaphors? This worksheet offers a quick reminder of how and when they're used and helps your child improve their descriptive writing by using them correctly.
Painting a picture with words
This worksheet will help improve your child's descriptive writing by encouraging them to draw on their sensory experiences. Can they describe a scary place through smell, hearing, sight, touch and taste? What will a reader picture after hearing their text?
All about imagery
Imagery is used in writing to help us imagine a place or character more clearly. This worksheet helps your child practise identifying imagery and then come up with their own metaphors and similes to enrich their descriptive writing.
More interesting words for 'said' and 'went'
This worksheet gives a list of powerful verbs which all mean 'said' or 'went'. Children need to work out which is which and then arrange them into the columns in the table given.