This book is ideal for helping secondary school students improve creative story writing in preparation for the GCSE and IGCSE English Language exams.

The creative story task represents between 25% and 30% of your overall mark (depending on your exam board), so practise using these model answers and see your marks rise.

Each chapter contains an exam task and a planning checklist designed to help students do regular timed writing practice. There are also twelve complete model answers to help students understand what a good exam story looks like. Each model answer demonstrates what the examiners are looking for:

• powerful, varied vocabulary choices
• insightful characterisation
• naturalistic, well punctuated, dialogue
• vivid sense of place
• coherent plotting
• cohesive and varied grammar
• accurate spelling and punctuation

Read a FREE sample