a sentence starter that tells the reader when something happens

Writing the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'

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Sequencing and retelling the story of 'Lucky Dip'

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'

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

Which part of a story is where the writer might introduce a problem?

Which part of a story is where the writer might build up tension and excitement?

What is the problem Emily has in the build-up of 'Lucky Dip'?

True or false? Fronted adverbials of time start sentences.

What piece of punctuation comes after a fronted adverbial of time?

Which of these fronted adverbials of time would tell the reader that the action was happening very quickly?

Which is the first part of a story staircase?

Which part of the story staircase comes after the opening?

The build-up is the part of the story where the writer will introduce ...

What is the problem Emily faces in the build-up of 'Lucky Dip'?

What is the name of the machine that the magical bunny is inside?

Who pulled Emily out of the arcade at the end of the build-up?

Writing the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'

Lesson outcome