Generating vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip'
I can generate vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip’.
Generating vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip'
I can generate vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip’.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
- Two adjectives describing a noun is called an expanded noun phrase.
- A comma should be used to separate adjectives in an expanded noun phrase.
- A character is a person or animal in a fictional story. They are not real and have been created by the writer.
Common misconception
Pupils may find it harder to describe a character's personality, especially from an animation with nothing written down.
Encourage pupils to analyse the character's actions in the animation carefully, thinking about what this tells us about their personality. Model some examples e.g. Emily leaves her parents and enters the arcade alone - this tells us she is brave.
Keywords
Vocabulary - the words a writer uses
Expanded noun phrase - a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun
Character - a person or animal in a fictional story
Equipment
You need access to the 2001 animation ‘Lucky Dip’ by Emily Skinner for this lesson.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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