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Year 2

'Lucky Dip': narrative writing

10 lessons

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  • Developing fiction writing
  • Modern literature strand 1: identity, belonging and community

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In this unit, pupils write their own version of the short animation 'The Lucky Dip'. Pupils write using the narrative structure of opening, build-up, climax and resolution - a more sophisticated structure than beginning, middle, end. This unit can be used for KS1 writing teacher assessment purposes.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of narrative writing skills from the Year 2 unit ''Otherwise': narrative writing'. Here, pupils write another complete narrative, using the opening, build-up, climax, resolution structure, based on a short animation called 'The Lucky Dip'. Vocabulary generation lessons for settings and characters begin the unit; pupils then develop their understanding of how to use a variety of sentence structures and fronted adverbials in different narrative sections. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 3 unit ''The BFG': reading and narrative writing'.

  1. Sequencing and retelling the story of 'Lucky Dip'
  2. Generating vocabulary to describe the setting of the story ‘Lucky Dip'
  3. Generating vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip'
  4. Planning the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'
  5. Writing the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'
  6. Planning the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'
  7. Writing the build-up of ‘Lucky Dip'
  8. Planning the climax of ‘Lucky Dip'
  9. Writing the climax of ‘Lucky Dip'
  10. Editing the climax and resolution of ‘Lucky Dip'
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