the building of action and suspense that leads up to the climax

to pull out the key events and ideas from a text

a state of feeling excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen

Reading the build-up in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

English

Understanding Lila's feelings in the build-up of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Planning part 1 of the build-up of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Writing part 1 of the build-up in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Planning part 2 of the build-up of the 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Writing part 2 of the build-up in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Reading the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Planning part 1 of the climax of  'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Writing part 1 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Planning part 2 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Using speech in the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Writing part 2 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

In this unit, pupils used complex sentences with certain subordinating conjunctions. In 'The Jabberwocky', pupils will use a wider range of subordinating conjunctions in complex sentences.

In the 'The Iron Man' unit, pupils learned how to punctuate direct speech in narrative writing. In this unit, pupils will develop the skill of writing speech, including using adverbs to describe the speech in further detail.

In this unit, pupils develop their ability to summarise key events from the text, exploring Lila's feelings in the build-up to these. Pupils plan and write both the build-up and the climax of the story, focusing on developing their use of complex sentences, precise vocabulary and speech.

'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing

a writing technique for showing a character's feelings with description of their actions, body language and facial expressions

the ability to understand other people's emotions and points of view

the building of action and suspense that leads up to the climax in a narrative

high-level language in writing that meets the text's purpose

a framework that writers create before they write a section of whole text

how a text is written to keep the reader engaged

a type of subordinate clause that starts with a subordinating conjunction

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

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

the point in the narrative where the suspense and excitement reaches its highest point

the point in a narrative where the suspense and excitement reaches its highest point

the communication of someone's thoughts through words

the term used for a person speaking out loud in a text

a conversation between two or more people, written in a text or story to show what each person is saying

punctuation marks used to indicate the beginning and end of direct speech

tells the reader who said the speech and how

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