a casual, unexpected or brief meeting with a person or thing

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

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

Planning a paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

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Engaging with the plot of 'Into the Forest'

Analysing features of a diary entry

Generating vocabulary for a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

Writing the opening of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

Writing a paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

Planning the final paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

Writing the final paragraph of a diary entry based on 'Into the Forest'

In this unit, pupils use a picture book as a stimulus for empathy for characters and establishing chronology of a diary entry. In 'How to Train Your Dragon', pupils will use film as the starting point for writing a diary entry.

In 'The Firework Maker's Daughter', pupils learnt to structure a diary entry in paragraphs. In this unit, pupils will learn to use a picture book as a stimulus for empathy for characters and establishing chronology of a diary entry.

In this unit, pupils write a diary entry based on the picture book 'Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne. Pupils use the book as a starting point from which they write a diary entry, focusing on using the first person perspective consistently and practising the skill of varying tense accurately.

'Into the Forest': diary writing

opening - general statement and beginning of recount

paragraph one - recount of strange encounters in the forest

paragraph two - recount of reaching grandma's house and finding dad

Put these parts of the diary entry structure in the correct order.

True or false? The boy is aware that the characters he meets are familiar fairy tale characters.

a confusing boy, who was leading a cow on a rope

an angry girl, who had long golden plaits

a pair of abandoned, hungry children, who were sat by a tree

Put the following characters in the correct order, from 1 to 3, to show the order in which the boy encounters them in the forest.

Match each character the boy encounters to the appropriate character description.

startled by the weird suggestion, walked on in confusion

made me really uneasy, continued journey swiftly

incredibly overwhelmed, wanted to escape, ran as fast as I could

Match each character the boy encounters to the appropriate descriptive vocabulary conveying a heightening of emotions.

full sentences with capital letters and full stops

True or false? The boy listened to his mum and took the long route to get to his grandma's house.

The boy first encountered a boy leading a ...

Next, the boy encountered a girl with ...

Then, the boy encountered a pair of __________ and __________ children.

He walked away from them and kept the cake.

How did the boy respond to the encounters he had in the forest?

The word 'encounter' is only used as a noun.

Starter Quiz

True or false? The boy listened to his mum and took the long route to get to his grandma's house.