to come or go back to a previous place, subject, activity, or condition

to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have

a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative

to get new knowledge or skill in a subject or activity

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

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

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'

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

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

A cyclone blows Dorothy and her house to Kansas

Dorothy's house lands on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East

Dorothy takes the Wicked Witch's silver shoes

Dorothy sets off to visit Oz and meets three companions on the way

Dorothy finds out that Oz cannot help her

Dorothy uses the silver shoes to return home

Starting with the first, put the events of L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' in chronological order.

Match the companion from 'The Wizard of Oz' with what Oz gives to them.

The overall mood or attitude of a text is the {{ }}.

The central topic, subject, or message within a narrative is the {{ }}.

The silver shoes would take her back to Kansas

The red shoes would take her back to Kansas

The Golden Cap can take her back to Kansas

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', what does Dorothy learn from Glinda at the end?

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', which superlative did Dorothy use to describe her wish to return to Kansas?

she wants her companions to come to Kansas with her

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy wishes to find Oz to ask him to return her to Kansas. This implies {{ }}.

a word that is spelled the same but has a different meaning

when the first line of a text mirrors the last line

To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have is to {{ }}.

the way we have used language in our story

Starter Quiz