The Vanishing Broadcast: Narrative Writing Full Unit — Paper 2 — IGCSE First Language English

The complete narrative writing unit for Cambridge IGCSE First Language English (0500 / 0990), Paper 2 Section B composition and Coursework Assignment 3, written for the 2027–2029 specification.

Take your students from a blank page to a Level 6 story, step by step, using one original model story they will come to know inside out.

• 10complete lessons
• 279teaching slides
• 1original model story
• 3levelled example stories

What’s included?

• PowerPoint with an introduction and nine complete lessons: 279 slides. Every lesson opens with a hook and clear objectives, teaches one skill at a time, and builds to a piece of writing.
• Detailed speaker notes on every slide: timings, questions to ask, model answers, common misconceptions, and support and stretch ideas, so any teacher can pick it up and teach it.
• Student workbook (76 pages, Word) that follows the slides lesson by lesson, with write-in space, planning grids, quick checks and success criteria.
• The Vanishing Broadcast: a complete original model story with numbered paragraphs, used throughout the unit to show every skill in action.
• Three stories written for the same exam title, ‘The Key’, at Levels 3, 5 and 6, so students can see exactly what lifts a story to the top band.
• A full one-hour timed write with on-screen checkpoints, then a lesson on peer feedback and redrafting.
• A student-friendly mark scheme, teacher marking codes, “how to move up a level” advice and a progress tracker.
• Exam route (350–450 words) and coursework route (500–800 words) covered throughout.
• Editable files: PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx).

What are the lessons?

1. Introduction: Freytag’s Pyramid, using Pixar’s short film ‘Piper’
2. Structure and the story world
3. Language that does the work: imagery, pathetic fallacy and dialogue
4. Tension and foreshadowing
5. Endings and an independent write
6. What makes a Level 6 story?
7. From exam title to story idea in ten minutes
8. Timed practice: one hour, exam conditions
9. Feedback and redrafting
10. Voice, time and punctuation: the Level 6 craft lesson

‘Piper’ is not included in the download; it is available to stream on Disney+.

What’s inside?

PowerPoint with an introduction and nine full lessons:

Student workbook that follows the PowerPoint: