Learn how to improve your writing with wow words, varied sentence starts, vivid detail and careful checking, by helping Scribble fix stories.
Chapter 2: Super Starts
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Improve Your Writing is an interactive game that teaches children aged 7–9 how to make their writing more interesting to read, matched to the Year 3 English curriculum.
Guided by Scribble, a talking pencil, players swap plain verbs like "went" for precise ones and watch a scene change, give sentences fronted openers that say when, where or how, and glue ideas together with conjunctions such as because, but and so. They build expanded noun phrases, add details for all five senses and practise "show, don't tell".
The last chapter turns players into proofreaders who hunt for missing capital letters, choose between a and an, and pick the right homophone. A final 10-question showcase checks everything, then invites them to write and check a sentence of their own.
Children can make writing more interesting by choosing exact words, starting sentences in different ways and mixing short and long sentences. Adding details that help readers see, hear or feel a scene also brings writing to life.
Wow words are precise, vivid words that replace plain ones, such as crept or raced instead of went. The best choice is the word that fits the meaning, not simply the longest or fanciest word available.
Show, don't tell means giving clues about a feeling instead of naming it. Rather than writing "Sam was scared", a writer might say "Sam's knees shook and his heart thumped", so the reader works out the feeling.
The game is designed for children aged 7 to 9 and follows the Year 3 English curriculum in England. Younger readers may enjoy it with an adult, and Year 4 pupils can use it as revision.
It includes an optional sentence-basics warm-up, five interactive chapters and a 10-question final showcase with a write-your-own sentence bonus. Playing everything takes about 35 minutes, and chapters can be played separately in any order.
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