strong feelings that result from a person’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others

refers to a verb form that indicates an action or state happening in the current moment

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Writing the final paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

English

In this unit, pupils use a picture book as a stimulus for empathy for characters and establishing chronology of a diary entry. In 'How to Train Your Dragon', pupils will use film as the starting point for writing a diary entry.

In 'The Firework Maker's Daughter', pupils learnt to structure a diary entry in paragraphs. In this unit, pupils will learn to use a picture book as a stimulus for empathy for characters and establishing chronology of a diary entry.

In this unit, pupils write a diary entry based on the picture book 'Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne. Pupils use the book as a starting point from which they write a diary entry, focusing on using the first person perspective consistently and practising the skill of varying tense accurately.

'Into the Forest': diary writing

I was slightly unnerved by the circumstances.

I did not think it sounded like my grandmother.

Which of the below are examples of the kind of informal language you would use when writing your diary entry?

I was super freaked out, but I went inside anyway.

When I arrived, the voice inside didn’t sound like Grandma!

Match each sentence type to the correct example.

What tense do you shift to at the end of a diary entry?

True or false? I cannot use different tenses in the same sentence.

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Plan and say each sentence before we write it.

Write as much as possible and as quickly as we can.

When we write, we always try to do which of these things?

I ran towards Grandma’s house as quickly as I could.

I became really scared because it felt like I was being followed.

I arrived and it didn’t sound like Grandma inside. I panicked!

I went inside and I found Grandma AND Dad! I told them everything.

Put the following events in the correct order to show the chronology of the boy’s final recount.

Select the correct emotion to complete the following sentence: 'The boy's fear turns to __________ when he is reunited with his grandma and his dad.'

Which of the following linguistic features will you use when continuing the recount in the final paragraph?

Match each sentence type to the piece of punctuation that demarcates it at the end.

When will you switch into the present tense in your diary entry?

a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense

a sentence formed of two main clauses and a joining word

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

Match each sentence type to the correct definition.

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