Weather: descriptive writing
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of some key narrative skills, making use of high-level vocabulary from the Year 4 units 'Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words' and 'Weather: wind and hot words'. The unit begins with pupils reviewing some figurative language, including simile and personification, applying it to writing Year 4 level sentence structures with a focus on description to complete two outcomes: a description about a storm and a desert island. This unit prepares pupils for using figurative language within narrative in the Year 4 unit, 'The Happy Prince': narrative writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The purpose of descriptive writing is to create vivid imagery in the reader's mind
- Adjectives describe nouns
- Adverbs modify verbs
- Past tense in various forms shows that something has already happened
Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of some key narrative skills, making use of high-level vocabulary from the Year 4 units 'Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words' and 'Weather: wind and hot words'. The unit begins with pupils reviewing some figurative language, including simile and personification, applying it to writing Year 4 level sentence structures with a focus on description to complete two outcomes: a description about a storm and a desert island. This unit prepares pupils for using figurative language within narrative in the Year 4 unit, 'The Happy Prince': narrative writing'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The purpose of descriptive writing is to create vivid imagery in the reader's mind
- Adjectives describe nouns
- Adverbs modify verbs
- Past tense in various forms shows that something has already happened
Reading, writing & oracy
Weather: descriptive writing
In this unit, pupils practise discrete narrative writing skills, basing their writing around typical stormy or desert island weather. Pupils practise using figurative language appropriately and with increasing sophistication; they also finish the unit by illustrating their descriptive scene writing.
7 lessons in unit
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