'Lucky Dip': narrative writing
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Why this why now
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'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Narrative writing is a form of fiction writing.
- Fiction writing can be stories that are not real.
- Stories can be separated into an opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
- Sentences have capital letters and full stops.
- Compound sentences use 'and/but/or' to join ideas.
- Fronted adverbials of time come at the start of a sentence and help the reader to understand when things are happening.
- A comma should be used to separate adjectives in an expanded noun phrase.
- Verbs may have adverbs next to them to add detail.
Threads
Why this why now
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'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Narrative writing is a form of fiction writing.
- Fiction writing can be stories that are not real.
- Stories can be separated into an opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
- Sentences have capital letters and full stops.
- Compound sentences use 'and/but/or' to join ideas.
- Fronted adverbials of time come at the start of a sentence and help the reader to understand when things are happening.
- A comma should be used to separate adjectives in an expanded noun phrase.
- Verbs may have adverbs next to them to add detail.
Reading, writing & oracy
'Lucky Dip': narrative writing
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.
10 lessons in unit
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