Generating vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can generate vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip’.
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.
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
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.
Teacher tip
To help generate adjectives to describe the characters' appearance & personality, it would be helpful to use stills from the animation so pupils can look closely. Once children have generated vocabulary, display the words on a word wall for them to refer to later in the unit.
Equipment
You need access to the 2001 animation ‘Lucky Dip’ by Emily Skinner for this lesson.
Licence
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the name for the place where a story is set?
Q2.True or false? A setting must be described in as much detail as possible to help the reader clearly picture it in their mind.
Q3.When describing a setting in detail, a writer will include lots of ...
Q4.In an expanded noun phrase, what comes between the two adjectives?
Q5.Which of these is an example of an expanded noun phrase?
Q6.Which of these nouns could be described with the adjectives 'icy' and 'blustery'?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.True or false? Fiction stories involve made-up characters.
Q2.Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'The writer can use their __________ to create whatever characters they want to be in their story.'
Q3.Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'A __________ is a person or animal in a fictional story.'
Q4.Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'A character’s __________ is what they look like.'
Q5.The writer can control how the reader feels about a character by choosing particular adjectives when describing. Which of these adjectives would describe a character in a positive way?
Q6.Which adjective would describe the Pin Man's personality in a negative way?
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