The Situation Your students find it difficult to develop simple characters and plot outlines. The Solution Provide students with a couple of these print offs from the story and character generators below. Using the pages, they can develop their own characters using generic aspects of characterisation and plot construction. Alternatively, you can construct your own … Continue reading Short Story and Character Generator

The Situation You need to assess what your students know about a particular topic. The Solution Complete a brain dump prior to starting a new subject/course. Provide students with the following printable. Have students number off 1-4 at their table. They the need to assign themselves a quadrant on the page. Record the topic in … Continue reading Check For Understanding – Brain Dump

The Situation Your students are learning how to annotate a short story or poem. The Solution Provide students with this resource at their set of tables. This resource outlines the multiple steps and areas to consider when annotating a short story. By using direct instruction, you can walk the students through the annotating process. For … Continue reading Annotating a Short Story

The Situation Your students need support in writing their stories. The Solution Download and use the Roll The Dice Story Generator to get students considering a variety of narrative conventions. Simply print off and laminate the resource. Provide students with a single dice. They roll it once. The number that occurs will link with the … Continue reading Roll the Dice Story Generator

The Situation You need to provide your students with a resource to help them with editing their writing. The Solution Download these posters (First 2 pages) and place them up on the wall (Preferably A3 paper). Page 3 and 4 has individual placards that can be used at each table. Print them off, laminate them … Continue reading CUPS and ARMS Editing Tools