a sentence starter that tells the reader when something happens

a narrative brought to life through the medium of animation

freeze-frame pictures taken from a moving image - they show one moment of the action, like pressing pause on a video

Sequencing and retelling the story of 'Lucky Dip'

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Generating vocabulary to describe the setting of the story ‘Lucky Dip'

Generating vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip'

Planning the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'

Writing the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'

Planning the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'

Writing the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'

Planning the climax of ‘Lucky Dip'

Writing the climax of ‘Lucky Dip'

Editing the climax and resolution of ‘Lucky Dip'

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

True or false? **Sequencing** means putting the events in the right order so they make sense.

What is the name of the animation about the girl at the seaside?

Which of these is a character in 'Lucky Dip'?

Put these four sections of a story in the correct order.

True or false? Fronted adverbials of time **end** sentences.

True or false? Non-fiction texts are about real-life things. 

Which of these is an example of a non-fiction text?

Which of these may require a writer to use their imagination to make up characters and a setting?

True or false? A fictional story should be exciting for the reader.

Which of these is the **first** part of a fiction story?

Starter Quiz

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