Planning, drafting and editing writing resources

Secondary English resources to help students successfully plan, draft, edit and improve their writing

Tes Resources Team

Secondary English student planning, drafting and editing their writing on paper

Lessons, activities and editing tools for developing secondary English students' writing skills

To guide your learners through the planning, drafting and editing process, and support them as they improve their skills, why not explore this collection of lessons, support mats, prompts and checklists, with everything you need to focus them on revising and restructuring their writing?

Editing and drafting supportive resources

A range of useful resources to help students effectively review their writing and successfully edit their work, covering sentence structure, spelling, punctuation and grammar, as well as developing the use of ambitious vocabulary.

KS3 English Sentences
EnglishGCSEcouk

KS3 English Sentences

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KS3 English lesson on sentence openers, that focuses on improving sentence structures so that students can re-draft, edit and improve their existing non-fiction writing pieces. The lesson includes a modelled example and extensive teacher and student notes so students can see where and how they can i...
EDITING ELEMENTS HANDOUTS
JOHN DSOUZA

EDITING ELEMENTS HANDOUTS

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A compact review of editing elements and guide organized for quick referencing. This Includes: * Vocabulary Overview * Editing Elements * Editing Guide * Assessment Rubrics * Active Verbs * Adjective Types * Adverb Types * Connectives and Transitions Teachers can use these handouts as ready refer...
Writing Checklists
Innovativeteachingideas

Writing Checklists

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Ease the writing process, turn your students into skilled self-editors, and give yourself a quick grading tool with our easy-to-use, fully-editable writing checklists. \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\...
SPaG Improving Writing Mat
Debbie Morgan

SPaG Improving Writing Mat

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An attractive and easy to use writing mat that includes everything you need to improve students' writing: homophones, sentence variety, paragraphing, connectives, speech marks, apostrophes, commas, improved vocabulary and figurative language. Ideal for the inside of students' A4 book covers; A3 clas...
Literacy Mats | Support Writing
Pagecraft

Literacy Mats | Support Writing

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Aimed at Years 5-11, this resource includes two Literacy Mats for general writing support in middle and high school. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students' written work! Each mat covers... * Common errors * Apostr...

Different types of writing

If you need to focus your lessons on specific types of writing and review their different layouts, features and language with your students, we have a selection of just some of the resources from the Tes community. To explore even more types of writing resources, take a look at Teaching non-fiction texts and our Creative and descriptive writing collection.

Writing Guidelines
Smudge78

Writing Guidelines

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An outline showing the basic features of the text type, sentence starters etc. The idea is as a teacher reference and not necessarily to give to students - handy, quick reference.
Descriptive Writing Task
1981kmorris

Descriptive Writing Task

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AQA Explorations in Creative Writing - Descriptive writing. Could be used for KS3 or KS4. A stand alone worksheet to help student plan and write a descriptive piece of writing based on an image.
DAFOREST Techniques Grid/Persuasive Language Techniques Grid
Isabellelockwood

DAFOREST Techniques Grid/Persuasive Language Techniques Grid

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This is a simple, editable DAFOREST techniques grid suitable for both KS3 and KS4 use. Whilst a column has been left blank for students to engage in creating their own examples of each DAFOREST technique (a great starter or plenary), this can be edited out in order to make this a reference-based res...
Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing
itsatarp

Manipulating structure and punctuation for creative writing

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Two engaging lesson on varying sentence structures and using punctuation for effect. Includes a range of activities and detailed worksheets that really encourage pupils to see the merit of more varied structural choices, as well as emphasises the significance of technical accuracy. Worked extremely ...
Non-Fiction Writing
EnglishGCSEcouk

Non-Fiction Writing

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English non-fiction writing introduction lesson that explores purpose, audience, text types or forms, language and structure as students recap previous learning on non-fiction texts from previous years and use their new learning to evaluate purpose, audience and key features within an article on tat...
Language Paper 1: Question 5 Creative Writing
RJB_Resources

Language Paper 1: Question 5 Creative Writing

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This concise and effective creative writing resource is ideal for setting as remote work. The clear and visualised format supports creative writing skills, while modelling more advanced literary techniques for more able students. Also, it can also be used as a helpful and effective handout for cla...