A complete, ready-to-use lesson resource for introducing story openings to KS3 students. Includes a fully designed PowerPoint presentation and a supporting student worksheet.

What’s included:

• Story Beginnings PowerPoint — an engaging slide deck introducing four types of story opening (in the middle of the action, at the end of the story, with the character’s main problem, describing the location), with worked examples from The Hobbit, Pig Heart Boy, The Maze Runner, and Metamorphosis for students to identify and discuss
• KS3 Fiction Openings Worksheet — a structured independent writing task with sentence starters organised by category (setting, action, character), character cards to scaffold planning, and a step-by-step main task prompt

Suitable for: Years 7–9 / KS3 English / low-stakes creative writing tasks / cover lessons
Skills covered: narrative writing, story structure, character, creative choice-making