Teacher guide · Creative Lab · Medium · about 35 min

📖 Story Forge Adventure

Pupils practise creativity and confidence through "Story Forge Adventure": Build a story with a hero, a problem and a twist — round by round.

Lesson guide

1. Hook · 5 min
Show the 📖 mission title and read the opening: "Choose your hero.". Take three quick guesses.
2. Model · 5 min
Think aloud through the first step together. Use Pixel the Fox's line as your prompt: "Nice! That's an idea nobody else had."
3. Do · 10 min
Pairs work through the 8 steps on screen or on the printed sheet. Circulate and ask "why?"
4. Discuss · 10 min
Use two or three of the discussion questions. Ask pairs to share different answers, not just correct ones.
5. Reflect · 5 min
Exit ticket: one sentence on how they used creativity today.

What was the hardest choice in "Story Forge Adventure", and why?
Choose your hero — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Give your hero a name and one thing they badly want — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Every story needs a problem. Pick one — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Where could you use creativity outside school this week?
If you did this again, what would you change?

Support: Read prompts aloud, pair with a confident partner, and accept spoken or drawn answers for writing steps.

Stretch: Set the Challenge tier (1 extra steps) and ask pupils to justify every answer in writing.

National Curriculum: English: composition — planning and drafting ideas (KS1/KS2)
National Curriculum: Design & Technology: generate, develop and communicate ideas
PSHE: Health & wellbeing: self-concept, strengths and interests

Pupil sheet

Name: ____________________ Date: __________

1. Choose your hero.
☐ 🦊 A fox who can't keep a secret
☐ 🧑‍🚀 A junior astronaut
☐ 🐉 A very small dragon
☐ 🕵️ A nine-year-old detective
2. Give your hero a name and one thing they badly want.
3. Every story needs a problem. Pick one.
☐ Something precious goes missing
☐ A promise gets broken
☐ A door appears that shouldn't exist
☐ They're blamed for something they didn't do
4. Put a story in the right shape.
___ Build-up
___ Ending
___ Opening
___ Problem
___ Turning point
5. Write your opening sentence. Make me want to read the next one.
6. Match the technique to the example.
Simile → ________________
Alliteration → ________________
Personification → ________________
Onomatopoeia → ________________
7. Now write the twist — the bit nobody sees coming.
8. Write the last line of your story.