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Year 2

Florence Nightingale: diary writing

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  • Reading and writing texts that inform

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In this unit, pupils write two sections of a fictional diary entry based on the historical figure Florence Nightingale. Pupils use research around her life and career as a starting point for writing a diary entry, focusing on using the first person perspective consistently.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of who Florence Nightingale was from the Year 2 unit 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report'. This is the first diary writing unit that pupils encounter in the English curriculum. Pupils learn the key features of diary entries, including how to maintain the first person perspective and what an informal tone sounds like. They then write two diary entries from Florence Nightingale's perspective. This unit prepares pupils for writing another diary entry in the Year 3 unit ''The Journey': diary writing'.

  1. Identifying the features of a diary entry
  2. Planning the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
  3. Writing the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
  4. Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
  5. Writing the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
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