3 Common Creative Writing Mistakes and Tips on How to Avoid Them in the 11 Plus, KS2 SATs and GCSE Exams

I’ve been preparing children for the 11 Plus exams, for GCSE English language and GCSE English literature exams for almost a decade at Geek School Tutoring and I have seen recurring and common creative writing mistakes. It is quite interesting to teach across this primary and secondary age range, especially when the same writing mistakes crop up in their work.

Over the years, I have seen a running theme of mistakes – and they can usually be avoided in creative writing.

Many children who struggle with their writing and make common creative writing mistakes tend to make the same spelling mistakes across the age groups; they make the same structural errors, and they lack the same types of grammatical content that would help improve their writing scores.

In this video, I discuss some of the mistakes that c children make in their creative writing – and (more importantly) what to do about them to help boost test or exam scores.

Common Creative Writing Mistakes Video

The Next Steps – Get Help For Your CHild

We have many options at Geek School Tutoring for supporting children with their creative writing, across all ages. How can we help?

• Small group or one-to-one tuition at one of our centres.
• Small group or one-to-one tuition online.
• Creative Writing Crash Course for 11 Plus preparation.
• Writing Warriors Weekly Writing subscription.