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Editing the climax and resolution of ‘Lucky Dip'

Lesson details

Learning outcome

I can edit the climax and resolution of 'Lucky Dip'.

Key learning points

  1. Editing is the process of making any changes needed to improve our writing.
  2. Punctuation is the name for the marks used to make our sentences clearer and easier to read.
  3. When we edit word choices, we carefully review and make changes to the words in our writing.

Keywords

  • Editing - the process of making any changes needed to improve our writing

  • Puntuation - the name for the marks used to make our sentences clearer and easier to read

Common misconception

Pupils may think that they have no errors if they have checked for mistakes in the writing lesson.

Teach them that editing is a part of the writing process that needs time dedicated to improving the word choices and spotting mistakes.

Teacher tip

You may wish to provide pupils with work you have created for them that includes suitable things to edit. Children could do peer editing, where they edit their partner's work together and then swap roles. It can sometimes be easier for pupils to spot errors in someone else's work.

Equipment

You need access to the 2001 animation ‘Lucky Dip’ by Emily Skinner for this lesson.

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions
(Collection 2).

Lesson video

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Prior knowledge starter quiz

6 Questions

Q1.
True or false? The climax is the most exciting part of a story.

Correct Answer: true, True

Q2.
True or false? A writer is expecting a rhetorical question to be answered by the reader.

Correct Answer: False, false

Q3.
A rhetorical question will always end with a ...

full stop.
Correct answer: question mark.
comma.

Q4.
True or false? Fronted adverbials of manner tell the reader how something happened.

Correct Answer: true, True

Q5.
Fronted adverbials of manner also tell the reader ...

Correct answer: how a character felt.
where a character was.
when a character did something.

Q6.
Fronted adverbials of manner have what piece of punctuation after?

full stop
Correct answer: comma
question mark

6 Questions

Q1.
What is the last part of a story staircase called?

opening
Correct answer: resolution
climax

Q2.
Which of these is a purpose of the resolution?

Correct answer: resolve the problem of the main character
add more problems
describe the main character

Q3.
True or false? The resolution needs to end the story with everything now resolved.

Correct Answer: true, True

Q4.
What does the Pin Man do in the resolution that surprises Emily?

He gives her the bunny.
Correct answer: He puts her safely on the pier.
He buys her an ice cream.

Q5.
What is the Pin Man doing when Emily gets on the bus to go home?

playing on a machine in the arcade
Correct answer: waving to her
going on the bus with her

Q6.
True or false? The moral of 'Lucky Dip' is to always judge someone by what they look like.

Correct Answer: false, False

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