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Year 4

Weather: descriptive writing

7 lessons

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In this unit, pupils practise discrete narrative writing skills, basing their writing around typical stormy or desert island weather. Pupils practise using figurative language appropriately and with increasing sophistication; they also finish the unit by illustrating their descriptive scene writing.

This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of some key narrative skills, making use of high-level vocabulary from the Year 4 units 'Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words' and 'Weather: wind and hot words'. The unit begins with pupils reviewing some figurative language, including simile and personification, applying it to writing Year 4 level sentence structures with a focus on description to complete two outcomes: a description about a storm and a desert island. This unit prepares pupils for using figurative language within narrative in the Year 4 unit, 'The Happy Prince': narrative writing'.

  1. Linguistic features of descriptive writing
  2. Practising using figurative language
  3. Planning a stormy scene
  4. Writing a stormy scene
  5. Planning a desert island scene
  6. Writing a desert island scene
  7. Illustrating descriptive scenes
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