Planning the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'

English

In this unit, pupils have learned how to use an apostrophe for contraction when writing sentences as part of a narrative. In 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: Non-Chronological Report', pupils will build on this by using this skill in sentences written within a different text type. 

In 'Otherwise: Narrative Writing', pupils learned how write compound sentences using co-ordinating conjunctions. In this unit, pupils will build on this knowledge by writing complex sentences using a range of jining conjunctions.

In this unit, pupils write their own version of the short animation 'The Lucky Dip'. Pupils write using the narrative structure of opening, build-up, climax and resolution - a more sophisticated structure than beginning, middle, end. This unit can be used for KS1 writing teacher assessment purposes.

'Lucky Dip': narrative writing

Which of these sections of a story comes first?

Put these sections of a story in the correct order. 

The opening introduces the reader to the setting and the ...

True or false? A plan should contain ambitious vocabulary.

Which of these adjectives is an example of ambitious vocabulary?

What type of stories involve made-up characters?

When writing a fiction story, a writer will create ...

True or false? A character is a person or animal in a fictional story. They are not real and have been created by the mind of the writer. 

To try and put a character in the reader's mind, the writer must describe ...

When describing a character, a writer will often use expanded noun phrases. Which of these is an example of an expanded noun phrase?

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