Planning the climax of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

English

In this unit, pupils learned how to use a range of fronted adverbials. In the next unit, pupils will learn how to use a wider range of sentence starters.

In 'The BFG', pupils learnt to use complex sentences for setting and character descriptions. In this unit, pupils learn how to use vocabulary in a wider range of sentence structures with increasing precision to show characterisation.

In this unit, pupils write their own version of the short film 'The Man on the Moon'. The unit encourages pupils to build on their understanding of the narrative structure of opening, build-up, climax and resolution. Each section is written with a focus on using certain sentence types.

'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing

Lily opened her presents and hugged her family on Christmas Day.

The man received his present: a telescope.

What would an appropriate **adverb** be for how Lily came down the stairs on Christmas morning?

Which is the most appropriate **show and tell** language for Lily during Christmas morning?

What would an appropriate **verb** be for how the man was on the bench?

What floated towards the man that made him intrigued and excited?

Match the emotion to the show and tell descriptive language.

She would try to take a hot air balloon to the moon. 

What idea did Lily come up with in the build-up to communicate with the man on the moon?

Order the sections of a narrative correctly. 

Which of these fronted adverbials would be found in 'The Man on the Moon'?

Fill in the gap: A fronted adverbial is followed by a ...

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