9 free writing resources for Year 8, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Good writing is planned writing. Every prompt here includes a short planning section, then a writing task with success criteria that match what teachers look for in narrative, persuasive and informative texts.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn how a strong paragraph works: a clear topic sentence, explanation, supporting evidence or examples, and a linking sentence…
Students learn the structure of an information report: a title, an opening general statement that classifies the subject, paragraphs…
Students learn six persuasive devices that make an argument more convincing: emotive language, rhetorical questions, the rule of three,…
Students learn five reliable ways to open a story: with dialogue, action, a question, a surprising statement or a vivid setting. They…
Students learn to show a character's feelings and personality through actions, body language, dialogue, thoughts and the senses instead of…
Students learn how a rebuttal makes an argument stronger by stating an opposing view fairly and then answering it with reasons and…
Students learn how an explanation text tells readers how or why something happens. Using an original model explanation of how a rainbow…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
An exam-style persuasive prompt on phone bans in schools. Students analyse persuasive techniques, then plan a contention, three developed…
An exam-style narrative prompt: an old photograph found in a drawer raises a question that the story must answer. Students plan point of…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
