Planning a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can plan a setting description based on ‘How To Train Your Dragon’.
Key learning points
- The setting description describes where the narrative takes place.
- Adverbial detail describes when, where or how things happened.
- Ambitious, precise verbs and descriptive adjectives help the reader visualise the scene.
- Using a range of sentence types enhances text cohesion.
Keywords
Purpose - the aim of the text
Setting description - a description of the setting or environment in which a story is taking place
Linguistic features - structures of language that use words
Adverbial detail - tells the reader when, where or how something happened
Adverbial complex sentence - a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause
Common misconception
Pupils may find it challenging to identify different sentence and clause types.
Ensure there is explicit teaching of simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences that is additional to this lesson, for example in discrete grammar lessons.
Teacher tip
If pupils would benefit from extra teaching of clause and sentence types, use the accompanying Year 5 'Five sentence types' Grammar unit.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the word class to its meaning.
a naming word for a person, place or thing
a doing, being or having word
a word that describes a noun
a word that describes a verb
Q2.What are the verbs in this sentence? "Clouds hung in the night sky and the moon shone eerily."
Q3.A clause is a group of words that contains a __________.
Q4.What is a setting?
Q5.Which of these groups of words could be complete simple sentences?
Q6.Which sentence type consists of two main clauses joined by a co-ordinating conjunction?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the keywords to their definitions.
the aim of the text
describes the environment in which a story is taking place
structures of language that use words
tells the reader when, where or how something happened
a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause
Q2.Select the purposes of a setting description.
Q3.Match the word types to their examples.
powerful
hillside
crashed
deafeningly
Q4.Match the types of fronted adverbials to their examples.
That night,
Against the cliffs' edges,
With a deafening roar,
Q5.Match the clause types to their definitions:
contains a verb and makes complete sense on its own
contains a verb and does not make sense on its own
a type of subordinate clause starting with a subordinating conjunction
Q6.Match the sentence types to their examples.
The stars illuminated the night sky.
The moon illuminated the night sky and the stars twinkled playfully.
Waves crashed violently as the wind howled like a monster.
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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