Planning part two of the main body of a diary entry
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can plan part two of the main body of a diary entry based on ‘How To Train Your Dragon’.
Key learning points
- The purpose of the main body is to describe events, thoughts and feelings in detail.
- Sentences can be opened in a variety of ways to enhance text cohesion.
- Adverbial complex sentences consist of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
- Informal tone can be achieved through use of contractions and exclamations.
Keywords
Text cohesion - how a text flows to maintain the interest of the reader
Adverbial complex sentence - a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause
Adverbial clause - a type of subordinate clause that starts with a subordinating conjunction
Common misconception
Pupils may be unclear in their understanding of different complex sentence types.
Ensure that pupils know that an adverbial clause is one **type** of subordinate clause. There are also relative clauses and non-finite clauses that pupils should be taught.
Teacher tip
Further learning and revising of the different sentence structures can be done through the Year 5 Grammar unit 'Five sentence types'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.A diary entry is a type of ...
Q2.Match the key terms to their definitions.
Q3.Match the key terms to their definitions.
Q4.Match the key terms to their examples.
Q5.Select the correct definition of a fronted adverbial of time.
Q6.Fronted adverbials of time are important features of diary entries because ...
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the keywords to their definitions.
Q2.We keep the information in the main body paragraphs __________ so that particular details of the day’s events can be recorded.
Q3.Select the key linguistic features of a diary entry.
Q4.The purpose of using key linguistic features in a diary entry is to do which of these?
Q5.Match the sentence types to their definitions.
Q6.An adverbial clause starts with a __________ conjunction.
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