a narrative brought to life through the medium of animation

a type of simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark

Generating questions about the characters in the animated story 'Otherwise'

English

Sequencing and retelling the story of the animation 'Otherwise'

Generating vocabulary to use when writing the story of the animation 'Otherwise'

Planning to write the opening of the animated story 'Otherwise'

Writing the opening of the animated story 'Otherwise'

Planning to write the build-up of the animated story 'Otherwise'

Writing the build-up of the animated story 'Otherwise'

Planning to write the climax of the animated story 'Otherwise'

Writing the climax of the animated story 'Otherwise'

Editing your climax and a pre-written resolution of the animated story 'Otherwise'

In this unit, pupils have learned how to write compound sentences using co-ordinating conjunctions. In 'Lucky Dip: Narrative Writing', pupils will learn how to use joining conjunctions to write complex sentences. 

In 'Jack and the Beanstalk', pupils learned how to write a series of mostly simple sentences to form a narrative. In this unit, pupils will begin to extend their ideas by writing compound sentences. 

In this unit, pupils write their own version of the short animation 'Otherwise'. Pupils write a narrative opening, build-up and climax, building on their understanding of beginning, middle, end narrative structuring from Year 1. Pupils edit their own writing at the end of the unit.

'Otherwise': narrative writing

True or false? An animated story is a narrative brought to life through the medium of animation. 

A __________ is a type of lizard that is well-known for its ability to change colour to blend into its surroundings. 

The skill of blending into your surroundings to make it harder to be seen is called __________.   

True or false? A question is a type of simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a full stop. 

Which of these is a correctly written question? 

Words that start questions mostly start with which two letters? 

Every sentence starts with which of these? 

What piece of punctuation goes at the end of a question? 

Which **two** of these words can start a question? 

Which of these words are used to describe a noun?

Starter Quiz

Every sentence starts with which of these?