Planning a desert island scene

English

Linguistic features of descriptive writing

Practising using figurative language

Planning a stormy scene

Writing a stormy scene

Writing a desert island scene

Illustrating descriptive scenes

In this unit, pupils apply ambitious weather vocabulary in a range of figurative settings. In 'Poetry Inspired by Weather', pupils will analyse a range of poems that include ambitious weather vocabulary.

In 'Weather: Cloudy, Dark and Rainy Words', pupils learnt a range of ambitious vocabulary for different weathers. In this unit, pupils will apply ambitious weather vocabulary in a range of figurative settings.

In this unit, pupils practise discrete narrative writing skills, basing their writing around typical stormy or desert island weather. Pupils practise using figurative language appropriately and with increasing sophistication; they also finish the unit by illustrating their descriptive scene writing.

Weather: descriptive writing

Which of the following words have the same meaning as ‘scorching'?

Which of these words are the adjectives in the following sentence? 'The sweltering, stifling sun scorched down on the parched earth.'

Which expanded noun phrases best describe a very hot midday sun?

whispered secrets to each other in the gentle breeze.

played a never-ending game of tag with the shore. 

scowled down on the island's shimmering shoreline.

Match these descriptions to make appropriate personification examples.

a technique that repeats the first three words of the first three sentences

a technique that moves from the big-picture details to the specific

a technique that moves from the specific details to the big-picture

Match the noun to its corresponding adjectives. 

a framework that writers create after they write a section or whole text

a framework that writers create during the writing of a section or whole text

specific and long pieces of information you write down to help you remember

full sentences you write down to help you to remember

short reminders or pieces of information you write down to help you remember

Which of these is vocabulary relating to hot weather?

Which of these are examples of expanded noun phrases?

It taps into our sense of hunger and thirst.

It helps us imagine what feelings we want to create in our reader.

How does imagining colours help us choose vocabulary?

Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'All around, the calm sea __________ like polished glass.'

Planning a desert island scene

Lesson outcome