KS3 Fantasy Creative Writing | Six-Lesson PowerPoint Bundle | Beyond the Ordinary

Step through hidden doorways, explore impossible worlds and create stories where magic has consequences!

Beyond the Ordinary is a visually rich six-lesson fantasy writing course for KS3, combining creative writing with short, accessible reading and analysis activities. Across six illustrated PowerPoints and 65 slides, students develop their ideas into an original fantasy story or a developed story opening.

The six lessons:

1. Discovering the Impossible – Explore fantasy conventions, infer meaning from clues and write an opening that moves from ordinary to extraordinary.
2. Building a Believable Fantasy World – Design settings with consistent rules, everyday details and carefully selected sensory imagery.
3. Heroes, Companions and Magical Creatures – Create protagonists with meaningful strengths and weaknesses, develop companions and reveal personality through action and dialogue.
4. Magic, Power and Consequences – Explore temptation and symbolism, establish limits for magic and write a scene involving a difficult choice.
5. Quests, Obstacles and Turning Points – Plan purposeful obstacles, connect external problems to inner conflict and use foreshadowing and revelation.
6. Writing and Perfecting Your Fantasy Story – Bring ideas together, control pace and structure, and edit for clarity, impact and accuracy.

What’s included?

• Clear learning objectives and student-facing instructions.
• Imaginative starters and discussion prompts.
• Original model passages with guided analysis questions.
• World-building, character-design and narrative-planning activities.
• Creative challenges and main writing tasks.
• Plenaries and homework activities across the course.
• Final writing prompts and success criteria.
• Six editing stations covering world, character, magic, structure, language and accuracy.
• Reflection prompts connecting reading analysis to deliberate writing choices.
• Illustrated FIN slides to conclude each lesson.

Featuring dragons, enchanted forests, floating cities, magical objects and dramatic landscapes, the slides provide an inviting backdrop for imaginative writing.

Ideal for KS3 English lessons, creative writing groups, tutoring, home education and enrichment sessions. Use as a six-week course or adapt the pace to suit your learners.

Format: Six PowerPoint files containing illustrated, image-based slides.
Total: 65 slides
Suitable for: KS3 / Years 7–9