A complete, print-ready five-lesson creative writing booklet for Year 5 and Year 6, built around one powerful stimulus: a door that shouldn’t be there.

Pupils write a full short story across five carefully sequenced lessons — setting the scene, developing a character, building an imaginative world, writing action and tension, and crafting a purposeful ending. Every lesson includes a warm-up starter, a high-quality annotated writing model, a scaffolded main task with generous writing space, a stretch challenge, and a self-assessment checklist.

Fully aligned to the KS2 National Curriculum for Writing, the booklet covers atmosphere, characterisation, world-building, tension techniques, figurative language, and story endings — all in one beautifully designed, pupil-facing resource.

Includes a cover page, lesson tracker, final reflection, and 7-skill self-assessment grid. Fully editable Word document. Print and go.

What’s Included
✔ Lesson 1 — The Door Appears Atmosphere and sensory description. Vocabulary bank, writing model, 12-line writing space, metaphor/personification challenge, and lesson checklist.
✔ Lesson 2 — Meet the Character Characterisation through action and thought. 5-trait planner, sketch box, writing model with analysis task, 14-line writing space, and emotion challenge.
✔ Lesson 3 — World-Building Imaginative setting and figurative language. 5-sense planning grid, writing model, double-page sketch + writing spread, and mood-shift challenge.
✔ Lesson 4 — Something Goes Wrong Tension, pacing, and sentence variety. Tension toolkit with techniques, writing model, 16-line writing space, and cliffhanger challenge.
✔ Lesson 5 — Resolution & Reflection Story endings with purpose and impact. Ending-type selector, planning bullets, writing model, 16-line writing space, and motif/symbol challenge.
✔ Final Reflection Page Story title, summary, pride and challenge questions, and a 7-skill self-assessment grid for pupils to rate their own progress.
✔ Cover Page & Lesson Tracker Name/class/date fields, a booklet introduction, and a lesson tracker pupils tick off as they progress through the unit.
✔ Writing Models — All 5 Lessons Every lesson includes a high-quality annotated writing model to read, discuss, and learn from before pupils write independently.