Writing with emphasis
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can show emphasis in my writing using a number of strategies.
Key learning points
- Writing with emphasis involves making certain words or phrases stand out.
- Writing with emphasis helps to show what’s most important or exciting in the writing.
- There are different strategies to show emphasis in your writing.
- Capital letters, underlining or repeating a word or phrase can emphasise importance or express excitement.
- Adding an exclamation mark can emphasise strong emotions to the reader.
Keywords
Emphasis - making certain words or phrases stand out by using different techniques to highlight their importance
Capital letter - the upper case formation of a letter
Exclamation mark - a punctuation mark used to express strong emotion
Underline - drawing a line beneath a word or phrase to emphasise it in a piece of writing
Repetition - using a word or phrase more than once in order to emphasise a point
Common misconception
As children start to focus on adding emphasis, they can forget some of the routine handwriting expectations like lead-ins and lead-outs.
Remind the children before they start to look carefully at the sentence. Having a visual check-list, which includes handwriting prompts like lead-ins, lead-outs and the size of letters can help.
Teacher tip
In this lesson there are example sentences. It would also be good for the children to come up with their own sentences and decide how they would add emphasis.
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the main benefit of writing in cursive?
Q2.True or false? Learning cursive handwriting can help improve fine motor skills.
Q3.Which of these letters would have a lead-out loop in their cursive formation?
Q4.Select the letter string which would only use the first join in its formation.
Q5.Select the letter strings which use the third join somewhere in their formation.
Q6.Which of these words use the fourth join somewhere in their formation?
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