Character: clever and clumsy words
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, including small, confident and shy words in the Year 3 unit 'Character: small, confident and shy words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of clever and clumsy characters. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe settings and scenes in narrative writing, including wind and hot words, in the Year 4 unit 'Weather: wind and hot 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.
- 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.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, including small, confident and shy words in the Year 3 unit 'Character: small, confident and shy words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of clever and clumsy characters. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe settings and scenes in narrative writing, including wind and hot words, in the Year 4 unit 'Weather: wind and hot 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.
- 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.
Vocabulary
Character: clever and clumsy words
In this unit, pupils learn a wider range of vocabulary to support writing about characters, including ambitious vocabulary for clever and clumsy words that can be applied to descriptive writing passages.
4 lessons in unit
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