The ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas.

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

The process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.

It needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful.

The process of making technical corrections to a piece of writing.

Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

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

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

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

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

to simply write without worrying about clarity or accuracy

to create an indepth plan before you begin writing

to produce or use original and unusual ideas

to produce ideas that have been seen before

plan out how you're going to meet the success criteria

write down all your ideas about an image without worrying about clarity

Revising a piece of writing is where you {{ }}.

Which out of the following words is the most ambitious?

'The flowers, which had, just started to bloom smelled divine.'

'The flowers, which had just started to bloom smelled, divine.'

'The flowers, which had just started to bloom, smelled divine.'

Where should the comma(s) go in this sentence: 'The flowers which had just started to bloom smelled divine.'?

Which word is the correct homophone for this sentence: 'Mary stared at the flowers and {{ }} gorgeous hues.'

What do you need at the start of every sentence?

Which piece of punctuation belongs at the end of a sentence?

 'Marys' fingers stretched towards the branches.'

'Mary's fingers stretched towards the branches.'

Where does the apostrophe need to go in this sentence: 'Marys fingers stretched towards the branches.'?

Which of the following words is a synonym for 'bad'?

If something is ambitious then it is {{ }}.

'The bees hummed; and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'

'The bees hummed and buzzed; the birds swooped and twittered.'

'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped; and twittered.'

Where does the semicolon need to go in this sentence: 'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'?

Starter Quiz

What do you need at the start of every sentence?