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Year 5

'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing

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  • Developing fiction writing

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In this unit, pupils use their knowledge of the text 'How To Train Your Dragon' to write a setting description, a narrative opening and a diary entry. Pupils use one stimulus to write for several outcomes, writing for different purposes by demonstrating certain techniques in each.

This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of a novel from the Year 5 unit 'How To Train Your Dragon': reading' as well as diary writing skills in the Year 4 unit 'Into the Forest': diary writing'. Pupils use knowledge of the text to create three pieces of writing, each using certain devices to meet the text purpose. Examples include precise vocabulary in the setting description, a range of sentence structures in the opening and first person and tense variation in the diary entry. This unit prepares pupils for more narrative opening writing in the Year 5 unit 'The Viewer': narrative writing'.

  1. Understanding the context of 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  2. Planning a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  3. Writing a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  4. Planning a narrative opening based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  5. Writing a narrative opening based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  6. Editing narrative writing based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  7. Identifying features of a diary entry to write from 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  8. Planning the opening of a diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  9. Writing the opening of a diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  10. Planning part one of the main body of a diary entry
  11. Writing part one of the main body of a diary entry
  12. Planning part two of the main body of a diary entry
  13. Writing part two of the main body of a diary entry
  14. Editing the main body of a diary entry
  15. Planning the closing of a diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
  16. Writing the closing of a diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
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