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Examples of Descriptive Writing Using the 5 Senses

What is Descriptive Writing?

Descriptive writing uses details and the five senses to describe a person, place, thing, or event. Proper word choice and the use of adjectives are very important for the reader to create a picture in their mind. Similes and onomatopoeia (sound words) are some other examples of descriptive writing.

Basic Sentence: The leaf fell off the tree.

Detailed Sentence: The yellow leaf fell off the big tree.

Descriptive Writing: SWOOSH! The smooth yellow leaf floated down from the enormous oak tree.

Using the 5 Senses

Using the five senses is one of the best ways to incorporate descriptive writing. Describing sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch will enable the reader to envision the words and better understand the writing. Although it may be difficult to use all five senses, even just using a few will enhance the reader’s experience.

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It’s fun to choose one topic and describe it in depth. Look at the list below for some examples of descriptive writing ideas for kids to try.

• Food – pumpkin pie, ice cream, hot chocolate
• Animal – dog, bird, elephant
• Season – winter, spring, summer, fall
• Holiday – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas
• Place – zoo, island, school
• Event – birthday, parade, sporting event

Winter by Mrs. Sutton

Cold harsh wind engulfs me like a tornado.

White fluffy snow falls from the sky.

WHOOSH! The sound of the sled as it races past.

The smell of logs burning in the fireplace.

Sweet hot cocoa hits my tongue.

Autumn is Here by Mrs. Sutton

Bright vibrant red and yellow leaves.

The sound of leaves rustling in the wind.

Cool crisp air surrounds me.

The sweet smell of pumpkin pie as the warmth enters my mouth.

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Descriptive Writing

The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader’s mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses. Teaching students to write more descriptively will improve their writing by making it more interesting and engaging to read.

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Descriptive writing helps the reader visualize the person, place, thing, or situation being described. When a text conjures a vivid, sensory impression in the reader’s mind, not only does it make the writing more interesting to read; it helps the reader understand the text better and recognize the author’s intention more clearly.

Why teach descriptive writing?

• It helps students make their writing more interesting and engaging to read.
• It creates opportunities for students to practice using new words in meaningful contexts, a key strategy for building vocabulary.
• Descriptive writing tends to include figurative language, such as simile, metaphor, and onomatopoeia. Noticing figurative language in mentor texts and incorporating it into their own writing help students build critical verbal reasoning skills. To find out more about verbal reasoning and other components of language comprehension, see the “In Depth” section from the Comprehension module of our Reading 101 Course.
• It encourages students to learn from—and be metacognitive about—the techniques other authors use to write vivid descriptions.  
• It can help students clarify their understanding of new subject matter material and remember more of what they learn.

How to teach descriptive writing

If only descriptive writing were as simple as “show, don’t tell”! Descriptive writing is a skill — and a craft — that takes instruction, practice, and time to learn. The good news is that it can be explicitly taught. An understanding of the characteristics of effective descriptive writing, combined with a toolkit of structures and strategies to scaffold learning and practice, can enhance students’ development as authors of vivid, evocative writing.

What effective descriptive writing looks like

Authors of descriptive writing use a variety of styles and techniques to connect with readers, but effective descriptive writing often shares these characteristics:

• Vivid details. Specific details paint a picture in the reader’s mind and appeal to the reader’s senses. Descriptive writing may also go beyond creating a strong sensory impression to give the reader a “picture” of the feelings the description evokes in the writer.
• Figurative language. Tools of the writer’s craft such as analogy, simile, and metaphor  add depth to authors’ descriptions.
• Precise language. General adjectives, nouns, and passive verbs are used sparingly. Instead, specific adjectives and nouns and strong action verbs give life to the picture being painted in the reader’s mind.
• Thoughtful organization. Some ways to organize descriptive writing include: chronological (time), spatial (location), and order of importance. Descriptive writing about a person might begin with a physical description, followed by how the person thinks, feels and acts.

What effective instruction in descriptive writing looks like

There isn’t one right approach to teaching descriptive writing, but effective instruction often includes:

• Mentor texts. Reading aloud and analyzing high-quality mentor texts to help students understand how authors use descriptive writing to connect with readers.
• Focus on the five senses. Helping students make the connection between sensory input (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch) and descriptive writing.
• Teacher modeling. Modeling different ways to generate descriptive writing.
• Guided practice. Repeated, structured practice scaffolded to meet students’ needs.
• Feedback and revision. Cycles of constructive teacher and peer feedback followed by thoughtful revision. 

Watch a demonstration: show NOT tell using your 5 senses

In this virtual lesson, the teacher models generating written descriptions of a hot day using the five senses as a framework.

Watch a classroom lesson: five senses graphic organizer

Students use their five senses and a graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for writing a report on a recent school event and to help them think about interesting words to include in their report. See the lesson plan (opens in a new window) .

Watch a classroom discussion: writer’s workshop

Writer’s Workshop connects great children’s literature with children’s own writing experiences. In this video clip from our Launching Young Readers PBS series , Lynn Reichle’s second graders practice their use of descriptive writing.

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Here are some routines and structures for teaching descriptive writing:

The RAFT strategy encourages descriptive writing and supports writing in general by encouraging students to think through the writer’s Role, the Audience, the Format, and the Topic. ReadWriteThink offers this RAFT Writing Template .

This Sense Chart (opens in a new window)  — organized into sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch categories — helps students capture sensory details related to a topic. The Describing Wheel (opens in a new window) offers a more open-ended format for capturing and organizing descriptive language.

The Show-Me Sentences (opens in a new window) lesson plan from ReadWriteThink was created for students in grades 6-12. However, elementary teachers can modify the Show-Me sentences to make them interesting for younger students.

This lesson plan from Utah Education Network (opens in a new window) guides students through the process of writing about a favorite place using descriptive language. 

This lesson plan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (opens in a new window) has students work collaboratively to generate descriptive writing about works of art. It is intended for upper elementary and middle grades but can be adapted for lower grades.

Teacher Laura Torres created a lesson plan that uses images to jumpstart vivid writing: Three Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts .

Differentiated instruction

For second language learners, students of varying reading skill, and younger learners.

• Use dictation as a way to help capture students thoughts and ideas.
• Provide sentence frames for writing descriptive sentences or paragraphs.
• Use pictures and other sensory prompts.
• Provide budding writers with real-life or virtual experiences that give them something to write about. Trips to a relative’s house, playground or grocery store provide real-life experiences that can be recorded by a new writer.
• Encourage students to work with a buddy or in a small group to develop first drafts .
• Work with students to brainstorm a word bank of interesting and descriptive words students can incorporate into their writing.

Extend the learning

This resource from Greenville County Schools in South Carolina provides several ideas for writing in math class . Writing and mathematics are similar in that they both require gathering, organizing, and clarifying thoughts. Writing can support math instruction by helping students make sense of important concepts and procedures.

Descriptive writing in science can help students capture observations and scientific phenomena with greater precision, and can help them comprehend new material by explaining it in their own words. Fazio and Gallagher propose two instructional strategies to assist teachers and student when writing in science: a mnemonic acronym (POWER) and an editing checklist.

Social Studies

In social studies, descriptive writing can help students describe an important historical figure or event more clearly. Writing rich in detail will create vivid depictions of people and places and help make history come alive.

Related strategies

• RAFT helps students understand their roles as writers, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they’ll be writing about.
• Revision teaches students about the characteristics of good writing, which will carry over into their future writing. Revision skills complement reading skills; revision requires that writers distance themselves from the writing and critically evaluate a text.
• Writing Conferences give students a chance to share their writing and and receive feedback from peers or the teacher.
• Think-alouds can be used for writing as well as reading instruction

Learn more about building writing skills in our self-paced module Reading 101: Writing .

See the research that supports this strategy

Akerson, V. L., & Young, T.A. (2005). Science the ‘write’ way. Science and Children , 43(3), 38-41.

MacArthur, C., Graham, S., & Fitzgerald, J. (2016). Handbook of research on writing (2nd Edition). NY: Guilford.

Miller, R.G., & Calfee, R.C. (2004). Making thinking visible: A method to encourage science writing in upper elementary grades. Science and Children , (42)3, 20-25.

Mitchell, D. (1996). Writing to learn across the curriculum and the English teacher. English Journal , 85, 93-97.

Children’s books to use with this strategy

This boy’s curse begins when his teacher suggests that the “poetry of science” can be heard everywhere. From Moore to Frost, familiar poems are parodied and turned into science verse. Again art and illustration are inseparable as are the laughs in this offbeat look at science.

Science Verse

When Louis’ uncle sends a tadpole from a certain lake in Scotland, the small tadpole grows to enormous proportions. With the help of a resourceful librarian, Louis figures out a way to feed his large and ever-hungry Alphonse as well as determine a permanent solution. Humor abounds in this contemporary classic.

The Mysterious Tadpole

Martin Luther King Jr. grew up fascinated by big words. He would later go on to use these words to inspire a nation and call people to action. In this award-winning book, powerful portraits of King show how he used words, not weapons, to fight injustice.

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

At One Hoppin’ Place, the countdown to bedtime is about to begin when a family of hamsters — a mother and father with nine kids and a baby all wearing numbered striped jerseys — arrives at the front door.

10 Minutes Till Bedtime

Every day children around the world awake to begin their days having breakfast, going to school, coming home to families. A poetic text combines with photographs from myriad countries to visually highlight the richness of the world and its people.

One World, One Day

If all of the 300 million people were simply one village of 100 people, its diversity is easier to understand. That’s just what the author has done to make the complex make-up of the U.S. residents (in terms of languages spoken, ages, and more). Colorful illustrations accompany the understandable text. Additional resources complete the book. If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World’s People (opens in a new window) , also by Smith, looks at the inhabitants of the world as a village to allow its diversity to become more understandable for adults and children.

If America Were a Village: A Book About the People of the United States

Relive the journey of the Apollo 11 where the first people stepped on the Moon’s surface and saw Earth from a very different perspective. Eloquent language and illustrations combine to present this historical event in a unique, unforgettable way.

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

Two machines captivated young Philo Farnsworth: a telephone and a phonograph. Both had cranks and both connected people with others (one in real time, the other through music). These and other inspirations motivated young Philo to invent what was to become known as the television. His early story is fascinatingly told and well illustrated.

The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth

Ted Williams never flinched at hard work or a challenge. In his last season with the Boston Red Sox, Williams had to decide if he wanted to take the chance and lose his rare .400 average or go to bat. Williams’ decision creates a riveting read in this handsome and thoughtful look at one man’s ethics and the times in which he lived.

No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the Last .400 Season

A mother and her child get the ingredients for soup on a snowy day and then add everything to the pot. The pair plays snug and warm while the soup simmers until Dad comes home when they enjoy soup together. Crisp collage and a simple text make for a cozy read.

The traditional tale of a boy who planted magic beans is reimagined as a city story of a spell broken. Illustrations are photographs that have been manipulated for good effect.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Benny’s Pennies

Children are encouraged to observe as experiment as they learn about wind and air as well as practice science writing by describing their findings.

I Face the Wind

26 Letters and 99 Cents

Arresting photographs of water in various states not only introduces water but also weather, solids and liquids, and more. The sophisticated text further encourages experimentation and observation, although is not necessary to use the entire book with younger children.

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book

Cinderella stories are found around the world; here, they have been fused into one tale with special characteristics in text and illustrations that reflect the different origins. Expand parts of the story to echo the traditions of the culture and its history from which it comes. It may be possible to develop a map of tales (e.g., ancient vs. modern countries, or as a visual as to where it is/was told).

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella

Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme 

The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) 

Scieszka and Smith set sights on creating fresh fables — short traditional tales intended to teach a moral lesson. With humorous twists and take-offs, new, different and wacky fables are presented for readers’ edification and amusement.

Squids Will Be Squids

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Descriptive writing – Use ‘show not tell’ to improve children’s writing

‘Show not tell’ makes for more impactful and effective writing – and Tim Roach has some great teaching strategies to help children put it into practice…

‘Show not tell’ is a common piece of advice given to young writers. But what exactly does it mean? Is it really a better way to write? And if so, how can teachers go about the business of teaching it for the benefit of their pupils?

On one level, ‘show not tell’ is the distinction between what the Ancient Greeks called mimesis and diegesis: imitation and narration.

Mimesis is how the writer imitates what happens by representing the action through their writing.

Conversely, stories told from the diegetic perspective offer an omnipotent narrator telling the audience what happens.

I liken this to an intrusive voiceover in a film, which suggests that the director is not confident their footage captured what the screenplay inferred, so they add narration retrospectively.

Although there will be some variation by the receiver, readers imagine a story through the eyes of the character they’re supposed to empathise with – so making a closer connection with that character is essential.

Inherently, it’s about representing the character’s reality by describing their behaviour; so that the way they act and what they say disclose details about what they think, rather than having the narrator clumsily announce their emotions.

Change the task

Description is a necessary part of storytelling, but it needs to be balanced: not enough, and you’re likely to have new characters teleporting into scenes; too much, and every character’s entire wardrobe is listed in minute detail.

And yet ‘describe this character’ is a writing task objective often set for children, as if a character description were an actual thing anyone would ever want to read, let alone write.

Instead, why not ask pupils to select and describe two to three details that might cast light on some aspect of that character’s life?

Similarly, ‘writing a setting description’ is a common task in English lessons.

Wouldn’t it be better if there were a purpose? For example, seeing the setting through a character’s eyes, which in turn reveals something about them, or describing it in poetry to invoke a particular emotion.

If you want to describe an entrance to a cave, it’s clearly better to say that a character had to stoop to enter, rather than giving the exact dimensions.

As CS Lewis said: “Instead of telling us a thing was ‘terrible’, describe it so we’ll be terrified”.

When it comes to teaching, ‘show not tell’ is one area of writing in which I’d actively advocate the use of film clips.

Analysing storytelling through the language of film will help children understand the power in where they direct the reader’s attention.

Show a short scene and pause it with each shot change.

For example, in Jurassic Park (Spielberg’s adaptation, not Crichton’s original novel), the approach of the Tyrannosaurus rex is memorably signalled by the vibrations radiating across the surface of a glass of water.

We’re shown the consequences of the approaching dinosaur – but not the creature itself.

As viewers, we know what’s coming, but the film forces us to experience it as the characters do.

The right words

In primary writing, we often use the ‘five senses’ model to tune children into a piece of creative writing.

One potential pitfall of this is that it can lead to formulaic description, listing all the things a character can see and hear, telling the reader everything about the scene before shifting to the plot.

In contrast, placing a character into a scene, and having them purposefully notice and interact with a few details not only brings the setting alive, but also – more importantly – the character.

Dialogue is another way to ‘show not tell’ – and don’t devalue the use of the word ‘said’.

When pupils are encouraged to replace all the ‘saids’ in their story, they inevitably end up with a series of paired verbs with adverbs.

In doing so, they might think less of the actual lines of dialogue spoken by the characters and more about the artifice of telling us how they are said.

When using alternative words, modelling and dialogic talk will uncover misunderstandings that children often have about unfamiliar vocabulary.

While thesauruses are a necessity in the classroom, cross-referencing in a dictionary and teacher discussion about the suitability of apparent synonyms are essential.

Otherwise, their use can lead to flowery phrases that miss the point entirely, due to the varied range of nuances within a set of synonyms.

Clichéd words and phrases, particularly when representing emotions, are obvious places where a teacher can model how to show what a character is feeling instead of telling that he or she is happy or sad.

Zooming in on facial expressions and body language is a simple way to train pupils to think about how emotions manifest themselves through behaviour, whether conscious (she folded her arms) or unconscious (he bit his lip).

Finally, comparison is a wonderful way to add shades to writing, and it’s more effective to teach figurative and rhetorical devices like metaphor and simile with this purpose in mind.

5 great examples of ‘show not tell’ in children’s literature

• “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. The opening line of Charlotte’s Web is perfect in its set-up. In one sentence, EB White shows us when we have stumbled into this scene, who is present, where they are and what happened immediately before, as well giving us a scintilla of what might happen next.
• Another fantastic opening is to be found in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book . Although grisly, it is a masterclass in the careful reveal of small details within a horrific scene. Gaiman never signposts the action; he describes it in precise, unhurried sentences that disguise the assassin with deliberate ambiguity.
• Ted’s Asperger syndrome in Siobhan Dowd’s The London Eye Mystery is never spelled out, but is alluded to by the main character himself in his self-aware, first-person narration (his “different operating system”) and by other characters through their dialogue.
• In Jakob Wegelius’s The Murderer’s Ape , the nature of the protagonist, Sally Jones, is hinted at with a solitary one-word clue – “fur” – in the prologue, before she reveals herself to be a gorilla.
• Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll introduces an antagonist – Esther Jenkins – and gives just two small points of description: her dark brown plaits (“sucked to a point”) and a voice that spoke English “a bit oddly”. This clue to her background isn’t resolved until a hundred pages later.

Tim Roach is a Year 3 teacher based in Oldham.

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Age range: 11-14

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An easy-to-use descriptive writing lesson with differentiated worksheets that allows students to practise their descriptive writing skills. Useful for more able KS3 groups or weaker KS4 classes. Includes scaffolded examples, work banks and example techniques to include. Useful for AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 Writing to Describe revision.

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Over 360 English lessons and resources for Years 7, 8 and 9! The pack contains units of work for 18 terms (6 terms in Year 7, 6 in Year 8 and 6 in Year 9) for 4-5 lessons per week. The overview of the pack has been designed to ensure all elements of English Language and English Literature are covered over the three years. All 18 term lesson packs are complete with detailed, well-differentiated and easy to follow PowerPoints for every lesson, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and engaging activities. These resources include modelled examples, scaffolds, sentence starters, extensive student and teacher notes and more. You also have the option to pay through school invoice - just contact us at [email protected] and let us know you'd like to, or if you'd like to discuss different combinations of resources, discounts or any other product. If you were to buy each resource separately at a cost of £3, it would cost you around £930! This pack is also available at a cheaper price and with Dropbox download options at [EnglishGCSE.co.uk](http://www.englishgcse.co.uk) Includes the following packs: Year 7 A Midsummer Night's Dream (Literature Paper 1) Travel Writing (Language P2 Section A) Myths and Legends (Language P1 Section A) Cirque du Freak (Literature P1) Science Fiction (Language P1 and Q5) Poetry From Other Cultures (Literature Paper 2) Year 8 Richard III (Literature P1) Gothic Fiction (Language P1 Q5) War Poetry (Literature P2) Animal Farm (Language P1 Section A) Non-Fiction Reading (Lang P2 Section A) Non-Fiction Writing (Magazine Project - Language P2 Question 5) Year 9 Of Mice And Men (Language P1 Section A) Non-Fiction Writing (Language P2 Q5) Modern Drama (Literature P2): Our Day Out Language P2 - Non-Fiction Extracts Othello (Literature P1) Short Stories / Descriptive and Narrative Writing (Language P1 Q5)

Descriptive Writing Bundle

Descriptive writing collection featuring nine lessons that are perfect for preparing students to improve their descriptive writing and/or for AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5. **Check out our [English Shop](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Lead_Practitioner) for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources.** [AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12063979) [AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11757237) [AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11747224) [AQA English Language Paper 1 package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11561370) [AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11899610) [AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11483869) [AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11828984) [AQA English Language and English Literature revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11449199) [An Inspector Calls whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11711589) [An Inspector Calls revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-gcse-9-1-exam-practice-11850503) [Macbeth whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11702645) [Macbeth revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11904820) [A Christmas Carol whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11718691) [A Christmas Carol revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12080244) [Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package ](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11607362) [Jekyll and Hyde revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11904852) [Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11903624) [Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11843215) [Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11563766) [Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11924178) [Unseen Poetry whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11843275) Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at [EC Resources](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources)

Narrative and Descriptive Writing

Descriptive writing and narrative writing bundle that includes the following lessons: Descriptive writing introduction Improving descriptive writing Punctuation Descriptive writing practice lesson with differentiated worksheets Language techniques for descriptive writing Creating a character Narrative writing introduction Structure and narrative writing **Check out our [English Shop](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Lead_Practitioner) for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources.** [AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12063979) [AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11757237) [AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11747224) [AQA English Language Paper 1 package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11561370) [AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11899610) [AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11483869) [AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11828984) [AQA English Language and English Literature revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11449199) [An Inspector Calls whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11711589) [An Inspector Calls revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-gcse-9-1-exam-practice-11850503) [Macbeth whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11702645) [Macbeth revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11904820) [A Christmas Carol whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11718691) [A Christmas Carol revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12080244) [Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package ](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11607362) [Jekyll and Hyde revision package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11904852) [Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11903624) [Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11843215) [Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11563766) [Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11924178) [Unseen Poetry whole scheme package](http://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11843275) Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at [EC Resources](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources)

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