Planning the opening 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'

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

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?

Starter Quiz

What type of stories involve made-up characters?