Planning a stormy scene

English

Linguistic features of descriptive writing

Practising using figurative language

Writing a stormy scene

Planning a desert island scene

Writing a desert island scene

Illustrating descriptive scenes

In this unit, pupils apply ambitious weather vocabulary in a range of figurative settings. In 'Poetry Inspired by Weather', pupils will analyse a range of poems that include ambitious weather vocabulary.

In 'Weather: Cloudy, Dark and Rainy Words', pupils learnt a range of ambitious vocabulary for different weathers. In this unit, pupils will apply ambitious weather vocabulary in a range of figurative settings.

In this unit, pupils practise discrete narrative writing skills, basing their writing around typical stormy or desert island weather. Pupils practise using figurative language appropriately and with increasing sophistication; they also finish the unit by illustrating their descriptive scene writing.

Weather: descriptive writing

Which of the following words has the same meaning as ‘windy'?

Which expanded noun phrase best describes thunder in a storm?

Match each noun to the appropriate personification.

a technique that starts with a complex idea that gradually gets more simple

a technique that paints a big picture first then gradually hones in on details

a technique that starts with a narrow idea that widens

Match the noun with its corresponding descriptive vocabulary. 

Which are examples of figurative language?

a device that gives human qualities and characteristics to non-human ideas

a device that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

a direct comparison between two unlike things

The wind howled like a banshee in the night.

What is the definition of personification?

The rain made a pitter patter sound on the roof.

Which of these is an example of personification?

The rain fell like a cascade of silver bullets.

Match the linguistic device to its example.

Planning a stormy scene

Lesson outcome