'The Highwayman': narrative writing
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of narrative writing skills built in the Year 5 unit, 'The Viewer': narrative writing', in which pupils developed their use of cohesive devices and show-not-tell to convey character. Here, pupils develop their understanding of creating atmosphere and engaging the reader with figurative language. Pupils also practise a variety of speech punctuation, sentence structures and recital skills, reading and memorising from this classic narrative poem. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 5 unit, 'Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A poem is a piece of writing that uses imaginative words to share ideas, emotions or a story with the reader.
- A person who writes a poem is called a poet.
- An adjective describes a noun.
- A noun is a naming word for people, places or things.
- A verb is a doing, a being or a having word.
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of narrative writing skills built in the Year 5 unit, 'The Viewer': narrative writing', in which pupils developed their use of cohesive devices and show-not-tell to convey character. Here, pupils develop their understanding of creating atmosphere and engaging the reader with figurative language. Pupils also practise a variety of speech punctuation, sentence structures and recital skills, reading and memorising from this classic narrative poem. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 5 unit, 'Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A poem is a piece of writing that uses imaginative words to share ideas, emotions or a story with the reader.
- A person who writes a poem is called a poet.
- An adjective describes a noun.
- A noun is a naming word for people, places or things.
- A verb is a doing, a being or a having word.
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Highwayman': narrative writing
In this unit, pupils use 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes as the stimulus from which to write a character and setting description, a narrative build-up in third person prose and a section incorporating varied speech sentences. Pupils complete the unit reciting and memorising parts of the poem.
17 lessons in unit
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