Character description of the giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can join two ideas together when describing the giant.
Key learning points
- Adjectives can be used to describe a character's appearance and personality, such as 'enormous, greedy' giant.
- When using two adjectives, a comma is placed in between them, such as 'the enormous, greedy giant'.
- Two ideas can be joined together using 'and' to form one sentence.
- Using 'and' connects two ideas together.
- Referring to the giant as 'he' after naming him makes writing less repetitive.
Keywords
Character - a person or animal in a story
Personality - the special qualities that make a character themselves
Appearance - what someone or something looks like
Adjective - describes a noun
Joining word - a word that joins words or ideas
Common misconception
Pupils may find it difficult to recognise that an idea must make sense on its own.
Support pupils using a sentence scaffold that guides them to join another complete simple sentence with 'and' rather than using 'and' followed by another phrase or expanded noun phrase.
Teacher tip
Share and write down all the expanded noun phrases that pupils come up with in the first learning cycle. Make these accessible to pupils along with a word bank of adjectives to describe the giant's personality to support them with writing their sentence for Task B.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match each punctuation mark to its name.
full stop
comma
question mark
exclamation mark
Q2.Nouns are ...
Q3.Adjectives ...
Q4.Match each word to the correct word class.
noun
verb
adjective
Q5.Identify the adjective in the following sentence: 'The grey clouds moved.'
Q6.Every simple sentence must ...
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Identify the joining word.
Q2.Which adjectives best describe the giant?
Q3.Which expanded noun phrase has the correct punctuation?
Q4.Identify the compound sentence.
Q5.Which sentence is written correctly?
Q6.Which sentence would build onto the first idea here to create a compound sentence? 'The angry giant had yellow teeth and __________.'
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