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Writing Effective Story Openings

KS2 English Teaching Resources: Writing Effective Story Openings is a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation with accompanying worksheets.  As with all our PowerPoints the presentation can be tweaked, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.  KS2 English Teaching Resources: Writing Effective Story Openings includes a range of tasks and activities designed to help pupils create effective story settings.

The PowerPoint contains:

- A guide to selecting an effective setting

- An analysis of how writers convey mood, tension and atmosphere through the use of setting 

- A guide to using the senses to create descriptive imagery - with an example text

- A guide to transforming sensual images and notes into a piece of descriptive prose which establishes setting and engages the reader

- A model text to help students through the creative process

To preview the Writing Effective Story Openings PowerPoint presentation please click on the images.

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