Creative writing: short stories

In this lesson, we will be looking at what makes a good short story. We will be thinking about our own favourite short stories and what makes them so enjoyable as well as unleashing our imaginations and considering what we would find if we stepped through a window into another world!

In this lesson, we will be thinking about the narrative structure of short stories. We will learn all about Freytag's 'narrative pyramid' and the hooks writers use to engage their readers.

In this lesson, we will be looking at different character types before creating a biography for our own characters!

In this lesson, we will be thinking about how we can ensure a reader enjoys our writing. We will be thinking about how we can make the sentences we write even better through sentence structure and figurative writing. We will then complete the activity this unit has been building towards: writing our own short stories.