'The Iron Man': narrative writing
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge, understanding, analysis and exploration of the same text from the Year 3 unit ''The Iron Man': reading', in which they focused on how Ted Hughes uses language to create tone, atmosphere and characterisation. With this prior learning, pupils use their own linguistic devices to create appropriate tone and atmosphere for their own version of the narrative, applying appropriate vocabulary choices. This unit prepares pupils for further narrative writing in the Year 3 unit ''The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A narrative can be structured as an opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
- Each part of a story has a specific purpose and intended effect on the reader.
- The intended effect on the reader is achieved through careful vocabulary choices.
- Adjectives describe nouns and adverbials modify verbs.
- There are three main types of sentences: simple, compound and complex.
- These must be punctuated accurately with a full stop, capital letter and a comma where needed.
- An adverbial complex sentence consists of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
- Dialogue is used to advance the action in a narrative.
- Speech first in a sentence must be punctuated with inverted commas (with a comma, question or exclamation mark before the closing inverted commas).
- The Iron Man was written by Ted Hughes in 1968 and is considered to be a classic modern fairytale.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge, understanding, analysis and exploration of the same text from the Year 3 unit ''The Iron Man': reading', in which they focused on how Ted Hughes uses language to create tone, atmosphere and characterisation. With this prior learning, pupils use their own linguistic devices to create appropriate tone and atmosphere for their own version of the narrative, applying appropriate vocabulary choices. This unit prepares pupils for further narrative writing in the Year 3 unit ''The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A narrative can be structured as an opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
- Each part of a story has a specific purpose and intended effect on the reader.
- The intended effect on the reader is achieved through careful vocabulary choices.
- Adjectives describe nouns and adverbials modify verbs.
- There are three main types of sentences: simple, compound and complex.
- These must be punctuated accurately with a full stop, capital letter and a comma where needed.
- An adverbial complex sentence consists of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
- Dialogue is used to advance the action in a narrative.
- Speech first in a sentence must be punctuated with inverted commas (with a comma, question or exclamation mark before the closing inverted commas).
- The Iron Man was written by Ted Hughes in 1968 and is considered to be a classic modern fairytale.
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Iron Man': narrative writing
In this unit, pupils write their own complete narrative version of 'The Iron Man', based on their understanding and exploration of the original text by Ted Hughes from the accompanying reading unit. Pupils write the full narrative arc from opening to build-up, climax and resolution.
10 lessons in unit
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