Setting words
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, settings and scenes, including emotions words in the Year 6 unit, 'Emotions words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of a wide variety of settings. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters, settings and scenes in further KS3 creative writing study.
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.
- Comparing synonyms can help to distinguish shades of meaning.
- 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.
- The vocabulary, grammar and punctuation taught in Year 5: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, settings and scenes, including emotions words in the Year 6 unit, 'Emotions words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of a wide variety of settings. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters, settings and scenes in further KS3 creative writing study.
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.
- Comparing synonyms can help to distinguish shades of meaning.
- 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.
- The vocabulary, grammar and punctuation taught in Year 5: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Vocabulary
Setting words
In this unit, pupils learn a wider range of vocabulary to support writing descriptively about characters, settings and scenes, including ambitious vocabulary for settings that can be applied to a wide range of descriptive writing passages.
8 lessons in unit
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