the part of the story that resolves the problem and allows readers to reflect

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

a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word

a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions and expressions

Planning the resolution of 'The Iron Man'

English

Sequencing and retelling the story of 'The Iron Man'

Planning the opening of 'The Iron Man'

Writing the opening of 'The Iron Man'

Planning the build-up of 'The Iron Man'

Writing the build-up of 'The Iron Man' (part one)

Writing the build-up of 'The Iron Man' (part two)

Planning the climax of 'The Iron Man'

Writing the climax of 'The Iron Man'

Writing the resolution of 'The Iron Man'.

'The Jabberwocky: Narrative Writing' - In this unit, pupils learn how to use speech first with inverted commas. In ‘The Jabberwocky’, pupils will learn how to use speech first within complex sentences.

In 'The BFG', pupils learnt to use complex sentences for setting and character descriptions. In this unit, pupils will vary the position of the subordinate clause in a complex sentence.

In this unit, pupils write their own complete narrative version of 'The Iron Man', based on their understanding and exploration of the original text by Ted Hughes from the accompanying reading unit. Pupils write the full narrative arc from opening to build-up, climax and resolution.

'The Iron Man': narrative writing

Hogarth led the Iron Man through the town and the farmers followed.

They arrived at a metal scrapyard and the Iron Man was mesmerised.

The Iron Man feasted on a variety of different metal delicacies.

The Iron Man was happy in his new home and had everything he needed. 

The farmers felt safe because the giant no longer needed their machinery.

Put the following events in the correct order to show the chronology of events in the resolution.

to introduce the protagonist and set the scene

to resolve the problem and allow the reader to reflect

What is an effective synonym for 'looked' to show how the Iron Man looked at the scrapyard?

What is an appropriate exaggerated synonym for the way the Iron Man 'ate' the metal in the resolution?

What is an appropriate exaggerated synonym for the 'metal' that the Iron Man ate?

Hogarth befriended the Iron Man with the offer of unlimited metal.

How did the climax of 'The Iron Man' end?

What happens in the resolution of a story?

True or false? I can use a range of synonyms to avoid repetition.

a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun

Planning the resolution of 'The Iron Man'

Lesson outcome