'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of narrative writing skills built in the Year 3 unit ''The BFG': reading and narrative writing'. In that unit, pupils learnt to write a narrative opening and build-up with increasing levels of sophistication and authorial intent; here, pupils write a complete narrative, using the opening, build-up, climax, resolution structure, to write their own version of a short film. This is more sophisticated than the KS1-level beginning, middle, end structure. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 3 unit 'The Iron Man': 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.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of narrative writing skills built in the Year 3 unit ''The BFG': reading and narrative writing'. In that unit, pupils learnt to write a narrative opening and build-up with increasing levels of sophistication and authorial intent; here, pupils write a complete narrative, using the opening, build-up, climax, resolution structure, to write their own version of a short film. This is more sophisticated than the KS1-level beginning, middle, end structure. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 3 unit 'The Iron Man': 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.
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing
In this unit, pupils write their own version of the short film 'The Man on the Moon'. The unit encourages pupils to build on their understanding of the narrative structure of opening, build-up, climax and resolution. Each section is written with a focus on using certain sentence types.
12 lessons in unit
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