a sentence starter that tells the reader how something happened or how a character was feeling

a question asked to the reader that does not expect an answer

Writing the climax 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'

Writing the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'

Planning 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

The most exciting part of a story is called the ...

In the climax of 'Lucky Dip', which character falls through a hole?

She wanted to fall down the hole to see where it led to.

Why is Emily walking backwards when she fell down the hole?

True or false? Rhetorical questions do not require an answer. 

Fronted adverbials of manner are often ...

Select the correct answers. Fronted adverbials of manner tell the reader ...

Which of these characters do not appear in the climax of 'Lucky Dip'?

True or false? In the climax, a writer will describe the problem and create lots of tension.

What part of the story staircase comes after the climax?

True or false? A writer may want to use a plan to help them write their climax. 

Which character is best described using the adjectives 'soft' and 'fluffy'?

Which character's arms can be described as 'muscular' and 'tattooed'?

Writing the climax of ‘Lucky Dip'

Lesson outcome