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Teaching students how to make their writing more descriptive

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Teaching students how to make their writing more descriptive

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Simile Spiders!

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Starter 2

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Word Bank

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Get your students to write a third part to my story and email me the top three that your class votes as being the best! 

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Get your students to write a third part to my story and email me the top three that your class votes as being the best! 

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- Ask your students to reflect on their predictions. What did they predict accurately? What came as a surprise? How does the writer prepare the reader for the ending? This type of questioning will help them analyse the structure of the text.
- What criteria would your class use to vote for the best written Part 3? You may want to direct them to the key features, 'the storyline' resource and your discussions about predictions and structure!

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Get your students to write predictions based on their reading of part 1 before sharing part 2 with them

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Get your students to write predictions based on their reading of part 1 before sharing part 2 with them

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Possible ideas for your students:
- Get students to underline and label the key features of Writing to Describe/ Narrate on this text
- Ask them to predict what will happen to each character, and what the climax and resolution will be
- Ask them to give reasons for their predictions
- Get them to write the beginning of the next part of the story based on their reading of part 1

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Success criteria

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Questions based on A Feather in his Cap (by Iain Davis) to help model the key features and structure of Writing to Narrate/ Describe

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Questions based on A Feather in his Cap (by Iain Davis) to help model the key features and structure of Writing to Narrate/ Describe

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Another feather in his cap part 1 questions

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A Feather in his Cap (Part 2) by Iain Davis

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A Feather in his Cap (Part 2) by Iain Davis

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Writing to Narrate/ Describe

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Writing to Describe/ Narrate (Lower ability)

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Writing to Describe/ Narrate (Lower ability)

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Success criteria

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Evidence, Explain, Analyse

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The terrible demise of Frisky the hamster by Iain Davis

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The terrible demise of Frisky the hamster by Iain Davis

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A Diary Extract : Writing to Describe/ Explain/ Inform

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Example texts to help model writing styles, map the key features and/ or explore the effects of language

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Example texts to help model writing styles, map the key features and/ or explore the effects of language

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Suitable revision and teaching texts for Paper 1 Q1(f) and Q2(d), Paper 2, Section B and Paper 3 COURSEWORK.

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Resources to help increase writing marks in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 (coursework)

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Resources to help increase writing marks in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 (coursework)

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Writing to Narrate/ Describe: The Storyline

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Writing to Narrate/ Describe: The Storyline

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A basic story structure. useful for planning your own coursework or Paper 2, Section B response!

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Said synonyms to convey a variety of character emotion
Coming April 2018

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Iain Davis has taught IGCSE and A-level English and Literature around the world for the past 18 years. He currently lives in Malaysia, and is the Head of the English Faculty at King Henry VIII College, Cyberjaya.

He also works for Cambridge International as a qualified teacher trainer and consultant for both IGCSE English and IGCSE Literature. In addition, Iain has been an examiner for the current 0500 Paper 2 and A-level English Paper 2 since 2014. He also works as an examiner for IB marking the HL English: Literature coursework and paper 2 responses as well.

He is kept inspired by his students, his wife Esther Soon (Mandarin Subject Leader at KH8), his daughters Alyazia and Reia, and his step daughter Mindy, and his son, Denzel.

Any feedback on the resources found on this site is welcome. Iain can be contacted by email on iainesther.davis@gmail.com and on twitter @EducateEternity

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This website contains unofficial resources created to support student learning at IGCSE level English Language (Cambridge International Syllabus in line with 2020 changes).

All the resources found here are original and free to use and abuse. So, please scroll down and take your pick!

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A Feather in his Cap (Part 1) by Iain Davis

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A Feather in his Cap (Part 1) by Iain Davis

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A short story: Writing to Narrate/ Describe

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Paper 2 Section B and Paper 3 (Coursework)

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Starter 1

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Lower ability

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Success Criteria

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for 2020 (0500) Paper 2, Section B and coursework