- Year 1
Writing to introduce the characters and settings in the story 'Wild'
You can write the beginning of a story from the girl's perspective.
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- Year 1
Writing to introduce the characters and settings in the story 'Wild'
You can write the beginning of a story from the girl's perspective.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- This narrative is told in the past tense.
- This narrative is written from the girl's perspective, using "I", "me" and "my".
- The beginning of a story introduces the main characters, setting and plot.
- Two ideas can be joined using a joining word "and".
- Two adjective sentences describing characters and settings need a comma in between, such as "magical, dark forest".
Keywords
Beginning - the first part of a story, typically introducing main characters, setting and the plot
Character - a person or animal in the story
Setting - where the story takes place
Plot - what happens in the story
Perspective - one particular view of something
Common misconception
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Emphasise correcting mistakes to develop a growth mindset and model how you would like them to correct in terms of presentation.
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