language that uses the five senses to evoke a mental image in the reader.

the feeling or sense evoked by an environment or setting.

giving serious thought or consideration to something.

Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere

English

Writing complete sentences and correcting sentence fragments

Responding to an unseen extract from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Using adjectives and semantic fields to plan and write descriptive paragraphs

Using simple, compound and complex sentences in descriptive writing

Using dashes, colons, and commas for effect in descriptive writing

Using adverbs, subordinate clauses and compound sentences in descriptive writing

Using vocabulary choices, similes, and metaphors to plan descriptive writing

Drafting a piece of descriptive writing on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'

Using precise evidence from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' to support an idea

Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'

Using sensory language and figurative language to create an atmospheric setting

Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

Practising planning and writing a detailed description based on an image

Identifying and emulating Baum's use of pathetic fallacy in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing Dorothy's return from the unknown in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Developing your explanation of quotations from 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Explaining and emulating how Bilan uses light in 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Meeting a fantastical creature in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Writing clear analytical paragraphs about Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sensory language in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sentence structures in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Explaining how Akala uses patterns of language for effect in 'The Dark Lady'

Revising topic sentences and selecting precise evidence from 'The Dark Lady'

Developing explanations in analytical writing about Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Contrasting the familiar and the unknown in your descriptive writing

Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing

In 'Step into the Unknown', pupils learn how to use a variety of sentences for deliberate effect. In the 'Dystopian Settings' unit, pupils will continue to use a range of sentence structures, to create atmospheric descriptions.

In 'When the Sky Falls' pupils write narratives inspired by a text. In 'Step Into the Unknown', using extracts from texts from the literary canon, pupils write descriptions of settings.

In this unit, pupils develop their fiction reading and creative writing by reading extracts from famous fiction and then emulating key techniques in their own writing. They start by securing and extending their knowledge of key sentence grammar, before reading and emulating the extracts.

Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing

What device is being described here?: 'where you give human characteristics to nonhuman objects or things.'

Which punctuation types might help create an eerie or unsettling atmosphere? 

The leaves whispered between themselves as I passed.

Which of the following would you use to create an unsettling atmosphere?

Complete the sentence: 'make sure that your description is well {{}} with a beginning, middle and end.'

zoom out and describe the image as a whole

Starting with the first, put the structure of a description into chronological order. 

the emotion a writer wants a reader to feel

the feeling or sense evoked by an environment or setting

What kind of language is being described here: 'language that uses the five senses to evoke a mental image in the reader.'

What language device is being described here?: 'a direct comparison of two things using 'is' or 'was.

where human emotions are given to non-human objects or things

a comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'

giving human characteristics to non-human things

a sentence with two main clauses joined by a connective

a sentence with one main clause and one subordinate clause

Looking at your work to see what you did well

Proof-reading your work to check for errors

What does it mean to reflect on your work? 

Starter Quiz

What is atmosphere?