Fiction: science fiction writing
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of writers' impactful choices from the unit 'Read around the world'. This unit expands and develops their thinking by focusing more intently on writers' language choices and their impact. They use this to now focus on descriptive writing instead of narrative writing, which further enhances their repetoire of creative writing skills. This unit prepares pupils for the unit 'Ending stories', where they will focus on how they can make impactful language and structural choices in narrative writing to create powerful story endings.
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 comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inference
- Pupils can understand how authors structure text, through plot or character development
- Pupils can 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 of writers' impactful choices from the unit 'Read around the world'. This unit expands and develops their thinking by focusing more intently on writers' language choices and their impact. They use this to now focus on descriptive writing instead of narrative writing, which further enhances their repetoire of creative writing skills. This unit prepares pupils for the unit 'Ending stories', where they will focus on how they can make impactful language and structural choices in narrative writing to create powerful story endings.
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 comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inference
- Pupils can understand how authors structure text, through plot or character development
- Pupils can 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
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Fiction: science fiction writing
In this unit, pupls read extracts from three science fiction texts and analyse how writers use language for effect. They first look at how writers use sentences and punctuation, before looking at semantic fields, noun phrases and sensory language. Pupils use this to write thier own descriptions.
10 lessons in unit
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