Digital Teacher Resources
Explore a curated collection of professional learning resources designed to support and inspire creative writing in the classroom. From reflective exercises for teachers to practical tools, lesson ideas, and student-facing activities, these videos and resource sheets help build confidence and creativity in both educators and learners. This collection offers flexible, engaging approaches to strengthen creative literacy and storytelling for primary school students.
Video Resources
Discover our workshop video series below. Explore our creative writing workshops in action and see how our facilitators inspire young people to write, create and share their stories.
Resource Sheets
Explore our resource sheets below for practical activities, lesson ideas and creative writing resources designed to support young writers. Whether you're looking for classroom inspiration or activities to try at home, these resources will help spark creativity and build confidence through storytelling.
Creative Writing Tools & Tips
Discover practical strategies, classroom activities and planning tools to help young writers generate ideas, develop stories, give feedback and build confidence in their writing.
Story Arcs Resource sheet
A story arc is a curve representing the chronology of a story from left to right, and the “heat” or “tension,” which usually peaks in the middle, vertically. In story planning and editing, we can draw the events or moments of a story along the arc.
Topics covered: Story structure, narrative planning, story development, editing and visual storytelling.
Randomisation Resource sheet
A professional learning resource featuring implementable writing exercises designed to stimulate teacher creativity and build a sense of creative safety in the classroom.
Topics covered: Idea generation, creative thinking, storytelling prompts, flexible thinking, and imaginative writing.
Playful Editing Resource sheet
“Playful editing” is a positive approach to editing and feedback through a variety of activities. When looking at story, style and tone, we don’t have to talk about editing and drafting as fixing problems or mistakes. Instead we can emphasise what we like and what we want.
Topics covered: Positive editing, peer feedback, drafting and revision, storytelling goals, and collaborative writing.
Lesson Plans
Explore ready-to-use lesson plans designed to help young writers build storytelling skills through engaging, hands-on activities. Each lesson includes clear instructions, facilitation tips and practical classroom strategies.
Roll a Monster Lesson Plan
Spark creativity with a fun, dice-based character creation activity. Students use random prompts to design unique monsters while building confidence in creative risk-taking, imagination and storytelling.
Topics covered: Character creation, idea generation, creative thinking, descriptive language, and storytelling.
What is a Story Arc? Lesson Plan
Use a visual story arc to help students plan, organise and refine their narratives. This lesson encourages writers to map key story events, build tension and identify how their story changes from beginning to end.
Topics covered: Story structure, narrative planning, building tension, sequencing events, and story development.
Ranimals Habitats Lesson Plan
Expand on a character by creating the world they live in. Students design imaginative habitats while exploring how setting shapes characters, stories and creative ideas.
Topics covered: Setting and world-building, character development, creative thinking, descriptive language, and visual storytelling.
Up on your feet! ACTION!
Bring stories to life through improvisation and performance. These collaborative drama activities encourage students to think on their feet, develop characters and create original stories using random prompts.
Topics covered: Improvisation, storytelling, character development, collaboration, creative thinking, and performance skills.
The Blank Card Board Game
Design and play a collaborative board game using original cards, characters and challenges. This activity encourages creativity, teamwork and problem-solving while introducing the basics of game design.
Topics covered: Game design, creative thinking, collaboration, storytelling, problem-solving, and imaginative play.
Out of Ideas: Creative Activities for Kids
Explore a collection of engaging creative activities that build storytelling, creativity and collaboration through play, drawing, drama and games.
Super Drawing Challenges
Encourage creativity through a series of fun visual storytelling and drawing activities. Students use random prompts, observation and imagination to create comic stories, original characters and expressive artworks.
Topics covered: Visual storytelling, character creation, comic writing, observational drawing, creativity, and imaginative thinking.