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Free worksheets: Creative writing and fiction, KS2
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Speech marks practice
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
You found a mysterious egg, then a weird and wonderful creature hatched from it and... Use your notes on the Using adjectives to improve writing and Word bank: powerful verbs worksheets to write your adventure story up neatly. Remember to include all your adjectives and verbs!
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.
Make a hedgehog and complete a story
Today you are going to create a character for a story of your own. You can then decide what your character does in the story. Get ready for some prickly fun!
Working with timelines
Listen to a story about Sasha's exciting day, then tell a story about a brilliant day you've had in pictures!
Remembering story facts
How good is your memory? Listen to this popular story then see if you can remember some of these facts from the story.
Suggest the ending of a story
Help your child read a text and then imagine how it might continue. They'll be taking their first steps into creative writing and story telling!
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Year 6 English Challenge Pack
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Year 6 proofreading: editing and improving
This information text needs punctuating and dividing into paragraphs. Try to include punctuation marks like semi colons, brackets and dashes, too.
Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language
Billy has written a letter to try to persuade his local council that a new park is needed in the area. The language is very informal. Do you think his letter will be taken seriously? Your task is to keep the ideas in the letter the same but rewrite it using the more appropriate formal language that is needed when writing a persuasive letter to someone you don’t know.
Year 4 proofreading: organising information into paragraphs
Paragraphs are used to split writing into sections; each paragraph is about a different topic. Can you cut out these sentences and organise them into paragraph groups?
Proofreading: adding brackets
Can you edit and improve each of these sentences by adding brackets (also called parentheses)?
Making new words with suffixes and prefixes
Look at the word list. Work out how many new words you can make by adding a prefix or suffix. Some of the words can have more than one prefix or suffix and be careful with the spelling as the words may change slightly!
Improving writing with expanded noun phrases
A noun phrase is a group of words that act in the same way as a noun. Expanded noun phrases improve a piece of writing by adding more information about the noun, making the text more interesting to read. Can you edit these sentences and improve them by matching them to one of the given expanded noun phrases?
Editing: improving descriptions
Any piece of writing you do can be improved by correcting mistakes, editing and adding lots more information to your first draft. This report about a Year 6 trip is dull! Can you improve it by including some of the following?
Editing: adding powerful verbs
Can you improve the sentences below by replacing “said” with another appropriate verb?
Book reviews activity pack
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