Planning the opening of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

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Developing initial responses to 'The Man on the Moon'

Summarising and sequencing the story of 'The Man on the Moon'

Generating ambitious vocabulary for narrative writing

Writing the opening of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Planning the build-up of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Writing the build-up of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Planning the climax of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Writing the climax of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Planning the resolution of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Writing the resolution of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

Editing a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

In this unit, pupils learned how to use a range of fronted adverbials. In the next unit, pupils will learn how to use a wider range of sentence starters.

In 'The BFG', pupils learnt to use complex sentences for setting and character descriptions. In this unit, pupils learn how to use vocabulary in a wider range of sentence structures with increasing precision to show characterisation.

In this unit, pupils write their own version of the short film 'The Man on the Moon'. The unit encourages pupils to build on their understanding of the narrative structure of opening, build-up, climax and resolution. Each section is written with a focus on using certain sentence types.

'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing

to engage the reader so that they carry on reading / watching

to entertain the reader with characters' spoken words

What are the purposes of the opening of a narrative?

Fill in the gap: A fronted adverbial of __________ tells the reader **when** the action in the main idea takes place.

Order the three key moments of the opening chronologically . 

Choose an appropriate fronted adverbial to start this sentence: '__________ the man appeared from a desolate shack.' 

notes that can be written in bullet points

Match the emotions to the examples of show-not-tell. 

What are the settings in 'The Man on the Moon'?

Complete this sentence: 'The main characters in 'The Man on the Moon' are the man and {{}}.'

Which of these is a fronted adverbial followed by?

Place the sections of narrative writing in the correct order.

What does a full sentence need to include?

Match the word classes to their definitions. 

Starter Quiz

What are the settings in 'The Man on the Moon'?