English Writing Composition Teaching Resources

Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in writing composition for Key Stage One covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts on different themes and topics

Instructions

Compose and edit different instructions to match a range of specific functions and experience

Poetry

Investigate how to write different forms of poetry about a range of things, themes and ideas

Recounts

Compose and edit real and imagined recounts of different activities and experiences

Signs, Lists and Labels

Design and produce signs, lists and labels to match specific functions and outcomes

Story Writing

Compose and edit a range of narrative fiction texts to match different styles and genres

Traditional Stories

Plan and compose stories to match the structure and content of traditional tales

  • Traditional Fables

    Traditional Fables

    Explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson

  • The Dove and the Ant

    The Dove and the Ant

    Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life

  • Town and Country Mouse

    Town and Country Mouse

    Dramatise and retell a traditional story with animal characters that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson related to the story narrative

  • The Hare and the Tortoise

    The Hare and the Tortoise

    Select and change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story to illustrate how the narrative events might alter