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Taste and smell words

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Why this why now

This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing settings and scenes through weather, including cloudy, dark and rainy words in the Year 4 unit 'Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of varied characters and scenes, specifically for taste and smell words. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters, settings and scenes in narrative writing, including action words, in the Year 5 unit 'Action 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.
  • 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 4: National Curriculum Appendix 2

Threads

Why this why now

This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing settings and scenes through weather, including cloudy, dark and rainy words in the Year 4 unit 'Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of varied characters and scenes, specifically for taste and smell words. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe characters, settings and scenes in narrative writing, including action words, in the Year 5 unit 'Action 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.
  • 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 4: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Vocabulary

Taste and smell words

In this unit, pupils learn a wider range of vocabulary to support writing descriptively about characters, settings and scenes, including ambitious vocabulary for taste and smell words that can be applied to descriptive writing passages.