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