Moving House: Write A Story (9-13 years)

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Essential Writing Practice (9-13 years)

Use the story planner to plan and write a story 'Moving To A New House'. Read the example to see how a story can be structured (opening, development of plot, complication, suspense and tension and resolution). Don't forget to work on how the characters feel.

An essential series of themed prompts to help children aged 9-12 years to practise their creative writing skills. The packs include an outline to help the child plan his or her own story, article, letter or play script and examples to build on, using harder more challenging vocabulary to stretch more able pupils.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify the ingredients of an entertaining story: opening, characters, setting, plot, suspense, dialogue, and ending
Plan an original story through the opening-to-resolution structure
Write a complete first-person or third-person narrative about facing a big change

Teaching tips

Read the model story aloud before the rules pages so students meet the craft in context, then loop back to name the techniques
Use the continue-the-plan page as guided practice — the introduction bullets are filled in, leaving the middle and ending for students
Take up the closing suggestion that the model could be a novel's first chapter — fast finishers write the next chapter with the new friend

Skills covered

Narrative planning — students plot introduction, middle, and ending against the file's paragraph plan and structure checkpoints.
Suspense and tension building — the plan pages explicitly prompt 'What might happen to trigger off a series of events?' and 'Build up tension and suspense.'
Dialogue writing — the model demonstrates dialogue moving the story along ('Why can't we go for a walk,' I pestered Dad).

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What does the model story contribute beyond an example to read?

It becomes the working material: students explain why its opening hooks the reader, fill in its characters and setting, extend its plan for the middle and ending, and sort its vocabulary into a word-class table — the story's plot ('facing a big change after moving house') is given as the anchor.

How much support does the final writing task give?

A structured runway: the prompt sets the scenario (sad and lonely at first, then a new friend), a planning page walks through opening, development, complication, suspense and tension, and resolution questions, and two lined pages hold the draft.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

W.5.3

Core concepts

Narrative writing
Story structure
Suspense
Dialogue
Sentence variety

Topics

Creative writing tasks Creative writing lessons Teaching creative writing Creative descriptive writing Plan a story Write a house

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