high-level language in writing that meets the text purpose

how a text flows in order to maintain the interest of the reader and achieve the purpose

shows a character’s feelings by describing their actions, body language and facial expressions

Writing paragraph one of an emotive narrative scene in 'Whale Rider'

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Learning about the context of 'Whale Rider'

Retelling the story of 'Whale Rider'

Exploring characters' perspectives

Practising writing direct speech for 'Whale Rider'

Planning the opening of 'Whale Rider'

Writing the opening of 'Whale Rider'

Planning a narrative scene with direct speech in 'Whale Rider'

Writing a narrative scene with direct speech in 'Whale Rider'

Editing paragraphs of a narrative in 'Whale Rider'

Planning an emotive narrative scene in 'Whale Rider'

Writing paragraph two of an emotive narrative scene in 'Whale Rider'

Planning the resolution of 'Whale Rider'

Writing the resolution of 'Whale Rider'

Publishing and reading my 'Whale Rider' narrative aloud

In this unit, pupils learn to develop speech from a film to varied speech sentence structures. In 'The Viewer', pupils will learn to think of speech sentences that develop character from a picture book.

In 'The Happy Prince', pupils learnt to develop their ability to develop character with vocabulary and speech. In this unit, pupils will learn to develop speech from a film to varied speech sentence structures.

In this unit, pupils write a range of narrative outcomes based on the film 'Whale Rider'. They analyse sections of the film carefully, from which they write an opening, an emotive scene and a resolution. Pupils also practise using speech punctuation accurately in their narratives.

'Whale Rider': narrative writing

True or false? We should use a range of sentence types (like simple, compound and complex) in our writing.

The villagers ran frantically towards the shore. 

There was an urgent cry and the villagers looked up in shock. 

As she reached the shore, the helpless whales broke her heart. 

What linguistic device is this an example of?
'How could she just watch these symbols of her heritage ebb away?'

Complete the following sentence with an appropriate fronted adverbial: '__________ an urgent, sudden cry from the beach interrupted the ocean’s rhythmic motion.'

The villagers ran frantically towards the sea.

The villagers ran frantically towards the sea with eyes widened in alarm.

''We're really scared!'' exclaimed the villagers. 

Which of the following uses 'show-not-tell' language to describe how the villagers felt when they saw the stranded whales?

plan and say each sentence before we write it.

read back our sentences out loud to check they make sense. 

Select all that apply to complete this sentence: 'When writing, we should...'

use the notes to form a range of full sentences

How do you use a plan to write part of a narrative?

What are the different sentence types that you can use in your writing?

One night, some whales become stranded on a beach.

Members of the tribe arrive to try to save the whales, but they are not able to.

Paikea communicates with the lead whale and they start moving.

Put the four key moments of the climax in chronological order. 

a sentence formed of one main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause

a sentence formed of two main clauses and a co-ordinating conjunction

Their eyes widened in fear and their jaws dropped. 

Which of the following is an example of 'show-not-tell' language?

Starter Quiz

How do you use a plan to write part of a narrative?