Character: big, beautiful and eye words
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary in narrative writing and reading units throughout KS1, for example in the Year 2 unit ''Lucky Dip': narrative writing'. For the first time, pupils learn a range of ambitious vocabulary at word-level in discrete lessons, focusing here on building vocabulary to describe characters, including big, beautiful and eye words. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters in narrative writing, including small, confident and shy words, in the Year 3 unit 'Character: small, confident and shy 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.
- A noun is a person, place or thing.
- An adjective describes a noun.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary in narrative writing and reading units throughout KS1, for example in the Year 2 unit ''Lucky Dip': narrative writing'. For the first time, pupils learn a range of ambitious vocabulary at word-level in discrete lessons, focusing here on building vocabulary to describe characters, including big, beautiful and eye words. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters in narrative writing, including small, confident and shy words, in the Year 3 unit 'Character: small, confident and shy 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.
- A noun is a person, place or thing.
- An adjective describes a noun.
Vocabulary
Character: big, beautiful and eye words
In this unit, pupils learn to grow their descriptive vocabulary in discrete lessons for the first time. They learn a range of vocabulary to support writing about characters, including ambitious vocabulary for big, beautiful and eye words that can be applied to descriptive writing passages.
6 lessons in unit
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