Fiction: books that changed my world
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding and mastery of fiction writing methods from the unit 'Ending stories'. In this unit, pupils look at a wider range of fiction writing techniques, and start to think carefully about the merits of making different choices in their writing. They also start to focus more on openings and beginnings, which helps them to extend their understanding of comprehensive narrative writing. This unit prepares pupils for the unit 'Inner musings', where pupils extend their understanding of narrative writing by focusing in detail on the importance of voice.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode a range of texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts
- Pupils can offer alternative interpretations of an author's use of language
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils understand how authors structure text, through plot or character development
- Pupils understand the difference between narrative and descriptive writing
- Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can use a range of language devices, in their own writing
- Pupils can use single paragraph outlines, to plan their writing
- Pupils can use a range of inter-connected paragraphs in their writing
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding and mastery of fiction writing methods from the unit 'Ending stories'. In this unit, pupils look at a wider range of fiction writing techniques, and start to think carefully about the merits of making different choices in their writing. They also start to focus more on openings and beginnings, which helps them to extend their understanding of comprehensive narrative writing. This unit prepares pupils for the unit 'Inner musings', where pupils extend their understanding of narrative writing by focusing in detail on the importance of voice.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode a range of texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts
- Pupils can offer alternative interpretations of an author's use of language
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils understand how authors structure text, through plot or character development
- Pupils understand the difference between narrative and descriptive writing
- Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can use a range of language devices, in their own writing
- Pupils can use single paragraph outlines, to plan their writing
- Pupils can use a range of inter-connected paragraphs in their writing
Language
Fiction: books that changed my world
In this unit, pupils read extracts from some impactful books to inpsire their own writing. Within each of the five extracts, they identify and analyse a key technique before emulating it in their own piece of writing. At the end of the unit, they craft the opening to an impactful narrative.
14 lessons in unit
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