I have been a teacher for 28 years, a Headteacher for 13 years and, at the age of 52, this much I know about resources for teaching how to write a short story for the writing question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1. These are very simple presentations; together they provide students with the basics for structuring their own short story if they get a short story only option on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1, like this from the AQA guide to the specimen assessments: The first is about the basic formal features of a short story: [scribd id=349955796 key=key-GQwmzgYejuO79jIABEc8 mode=scroll] The second uses the original Toy Story film as a model for the basic narrative structure of a short story: [scribd id=349956640 key=key-2cnKACo3Dp7s6b3o25xj mode=scroll]
