Action words
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, settings and scenes, including taste and smell words in the Year 5 unit 'Taste and smell words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of varied characters and scenes, specifically for action words. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters, settings and scenes in narrative writing, including emotions words, in the Year 6 unit 'Emotions words'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Using precise vocabulary helps to write more effectively for a particular purpose.
- A synonym is a word with the same or similar meaning.
- Comparing synonyms can help to distinguish shades of meaning.
- Words that often appear together can be called a word pair.
- Knowing a word's most common word pairs can help us to use the word precisely and effectively.
- The vocabulary, grammar and punctuation taught in Year 4: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, settings and scenes, including taste and smell words in the Year 5 unit 'Taste and smell words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of varied characters and scenes, specifically for action words. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters, settings and scenes in narrative writing, including emotions words, in the Year 6 unit 'Emotions words'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Using precise vocabulary helps to write more effectively for a particular purpose.
- A synonym is a word with the same or similar meaning.
- Comparing synonyms can help to distinguish shades of meaning.
- Words that often appear together can be called a word pair.
- Knowing a word's most common word pairs can help us to use the word precisely and effectively.
- The vocabulary, grammar and punctuation taught in Year 4: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Vocabulary
Action words
In this unit, pupils learn a wider range of vocabulary to support writing descriptively about characters, settings and scenes, including ambitious vocabulary for action words that can be applied to descriptive writing passages.
8 lessons in unit
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