Here are a few activity sheets which you might find useful whether you want to look at them on screen for ideas, print them out and carry them around as a reminder, or use them as a worksheet.
Among these activity sheets, you'll find a short story structure that you may want to follow plus a discussion guide for a reading group, should you decide to set one up. This could be used by the group leader but it might also make a useful checklist of things to think about for all the group when reading and reviewing a book together.
There are six writing tips with exercises you might want to try out to get you in the swing of having ideas and starting to write. Plus if you've never written a poem in your life before, why not have a go now using the suggestions on one or both of these sheets.
Do let us know if you can think of any other activity sheets that you'd find useful and we'll see what we can do to develop them and put them up on the site.
A traditional Japanese haiku (high-koo) is a three-line poem with a total of 17 syllables: five in line one, seven in line two, and five in line three....
An acrostic is usually about a person, place, object or theme. The word is written vertically down the side of the page with one letter per line. Each...
Great stories are often about great characters. To get a feeling of what a character I am creating is all about, I like to make a collage from...
Write ‘I remember’ at the top of a page. Now, in 10 minutes, make a list of all the things you remember, from yesterday or 30 years ago....
Got an idea for a story but not sure how to develop it? A good solution is to draw a messy map of all your random thoughts on...
Get a pen and paper, and make sure you won’t be interrupted for five minutes. Now open a magazine or newspaper at any page, or turn on the...
A writing exercise for you from the Bookbite Writer in Residence, Gervase Phinn. Here’s a small exercise for you to try. Focus in a memorable event in your...
INTRODUCTION The beginning of the story where characters are established An intriguing start An insight into the main conflict of the story ACTION Where events in the story...
If you've decided to set up a reading group and are looking for pointers to help with structuring the discussion, you may find the tips below helpful: INTRODUCTION...
By a certain age, many people have saved something from the past. For instance, an uncle or grandfather may have a tool in the shed that belonged to...
It's natural to write what we see in our mind's eye, but we don't always think about what we might smell, hear, feel or taste. Take a few...
People wanting thingsis what makes things happen in life as well as in stories. So think about your characters and answer the following questions below: What might they...
