Celebrate National Storytelling Week with this variety of story writing activities for KS1 and KS2. They will help to inspire a love of story creation and storytelling. These activities allow pupils ...

Most forms of writing involve description. For example, in a short story characters and places need to feel real for the reader. Description of events, feelings and atmosphere helps to achieve this.

though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...