The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader.

Where you look at or consider a piece of writing again to correct or improve it.

To form a picture of someone or something in your mind.

To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.

Drafting a piece of descriptive writing on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

English

Writing complete sentences and correcting sentence fragments

Responding to an unseen extract from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Using adjectives and semantic fields to plan and write descriptive paragraphs

Using simple, compound and complex sentences in descriptive writing

Using dashes, colons, and commas for effect in descriptive writing

Using adverbs, subordinate clauses and compound sentences in descriptive writing

Using vocabulary choices, similes, and metaphors to plan descriptive writing

Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'

Using precise evidence from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' to support an idea

Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'

Using sensory language and figurative language to create an atmospheric setting

Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

Practising planning and writing a detailed description based on an image

Identifying and emulating Baum's use of pathetic fallacy in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing Dorothy's return from the unknown in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Developing your explanation of quotations from 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Explaining and emulating how Bilan uses light in 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Meeting a fantastical creature in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Writing clear analytical paragraphs about Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sensory language in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sentence structures in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Explaining how Akala uses patterns of language for effect in 'The Dark Lady'

Revising topic sentences and selecting precise evidence from 'The Dark Lady'

Developing explanations in analytical writing about Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Contrasting the familiar and the unknown in your descriptive writing

Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing

Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere

In 'Step into the Unknown', pupils learn how to use a variety of sentences for deliberate effect. In the 'Dystopian Settings' unit, pupils will continue to use a range of sentence structures, to create atmospheric descriptions.

In 'When the Sky Falls' pupils write narratives inspired by a text. In 'Step Into the Unknown', using extracts from texts from the literary canon, pupils write descriptions of settings.

In this unit, pupils develop their fiction reading and creative writing by reading extracts from famous fiction and then emulating key techniques in their own writing. They start by securing and extending their knowledge of key sentence grammar, before reading and emulating the extracts.

Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing

a set of steps to complete a piece of writing

when you go through your work and correct any mistakes

writing down the first version of a piece of writing

looking back over a piece of work and making improvements

creating a plan to complete a piece of writing

the process of making technical corrections 

the process of writing down your ideas for the first time

It's important to vary your sentence starters because they can influence the emphasis, cohesion, and {{ }} of a sentence.

Create a mind-map that highlights the details

Use lingustic devices and vocabulary choices to influence the mood

Starting with the first, place the steps to approaching a description of an image in order.

To be able to hear the sounds from the scene in your mind.

the person, place or thing that is doin the action

the person, place or thing that is doing the action

The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader is called the {{ }} of a text.

Writing that is designed to be written in a detail and interesting way so that the reader can visualise the scene is called {{ }} writing.

The trees had green leaves, brown trunks, and brown branches.

The trees had luscious, verdant leaves and brown trunks.

The trees had luscious, verdant leaves that rustled in the wind.

Starting with the least effective, place these descriptive sentences in order of effectiveness.

Exit Quiz

What is a draft?