Free creative writing resources for KS1, KS2 and KS3 — and a way to turn every child's story into a real, professionally printed book with their name on the cover.
Children write differently when they know the result is a real book. Not a worksheet. Not a display on the wall that comes down at half term. A proper paperback, with their name on the front, that other people want to read.
The change is most obvious in reluctant writers. A child who will not fill half a page for an assessment will happily plan three chapters when the book is going to be printed and their friends are going to read it. The purpose is real, so the effort is real.
In our own experience the most surprising outcome was not the writing at all — it was what happened afterwards. Children started swapping their books with each other and reading each other's stories. Teachers began reading them aloud in class. The book stops being a task and becomes something that belongs to the classroom.
Storywizard supports the National Curriculum for English writing at every key stage. Here is how it maps.
All free, no sign-up, no email needed. Print as many as you like. Use them with Storywizard or entirely on their own — they work as standalone creative writing resources.
A one-page planning sheet: characters, setting, the problem, and the beginning, middle and end. The pre-writing tool that turns a vague idea into a plan.
Open & print →Develop each character before writing begins — how they look, what they want, what they are afraid of, and what they do in the story.
Open & print →A complete 60-minute English lesson, mapped to writing objectives, taking a class from blank page to a planned story ready to write.
Open & print →A practical sequence that works in a single unit of English, from planning to a class set of printed books.
Use the Story Planner and Character Profile Sheets before anyone touches a screen. Children arrive at the writing with their characters, setting and plot already thought through. This is where most of the teaching happens.
Your school gets a private class link. Pupils open it and enter their story — no accounts, no logins, no email addresses, no payment. They transfer what they planned on paper into their book.
Each pupil sees their book cover and a summary of their story, then sends it to their teacher. The moment they see their own name on a cover is usually the moment the room goes quiet.
You read every pupil's story summary and see every cover in your teacher portal. Nothing is written in full or printed until you approve it.
One click. The full books are then written, illustrated and printed, and the whole class set is delivered to your school in a single delivery.
The books arrive at school, so you see them before the children do. Then the best part: children read each other's books. Consider keeping a copy of each for a class or school library.
This is the first question every teacher asks, and rightly so. Here is exactly what happens, with no vagueness.
To be precise about what teachers review: you read the story summary of every book before approving it, not every word of the finished text. The full story is written from that approved summary, and we review the printed proof before it goes to press.
There are also no pupil accounts, no logins, no chat or messaging, no comments, no public content and no adverts. Nothing a child writes is published, shared publicly, or made searchable. Their story is theirs.
Our full Safeguarding Statement and Data Protection Impact Assessment are available for your Designated Safeguarding Lead.
When a class is writing, you need to see who has done what without chasing thirty children. That is what the portal is for.
Only your school's books appear in your portal. Nothing is shared with other schools or made public.
Set up takes minutes. You get a class link and your teacher portal, and nothing is printed until you say so.
See how it works for schools →