Drafting a piece of descriptive writing on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can draft a piece of descriptive writing and then go back over it and revise it.
Key learning points
- Drafting is where you write the first version of a piece of writing.
- Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
- Using a variety of sentence starters is important because it can influence the pace, emphasis or cohesion of a sentence.
- You can vary your sentence starters by using adjectives, verbs or adverbs.
Keywords
Draft - The first version of a piece of writing.
Mood - The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader.
Revise - Where you look at or consider a piece of writing again to correct or improve it.
Visualise - To form a picture of someone or something in your mind.
Evoke - To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.
Common misconception
That a piece of writing is completely finished once you have written it.
The first time you complete a piece of writing is it in its draft form. You want to go back and continually revise it.
Teacher tip
You can ask the students to draft and revise their remaining paragraphs as homework or in the next lesson.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an adjective?
Q2.What is a verb?
Q3.Which of the following is an adjective?
Q4.The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader is called the of a text.
Q5.Writing that is designed to be written in a detail and interesting way so that the reader can visualise the scene is called writing.
Q6.Starting with the least effective, place these descriptive sentences in order of effectiveness.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is a draft?
Q2.What does revising mean?
Q3.What does editing mean?
Q4.It's important to vary your sentence starters because they can influence the emphasis, cohesion, and of a sentence.
Q5.Starting with the first, place the steps to approaching a description of an image in order.
Q6.What does visualise mean?
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