Using perspective, tone, and punctuation to craft a clear voice
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can create a clear sense of voice, within my writing.
Key learning points
- Purpose and audience will help you establish tone of voice
- Students do not need to write from their own perspective
- Inventing a character can help their work stand out from others
- Sarcasm and humour, when used well, can be effective in creating tone of voice
- Deciding a viewpoint and sticking to it is more effective than creating a balanced viewpoint
Keywords
Condemn - If you condemn something, you criticise it strongly.
Optimistic - Someone with an optimistic view of the world sees it very positively.
Cynical - Someone who is cynical always assumes the worst about people or situations.
Pessimistic - Someone with a pessimistic view of the world sees it very negatively.
Prospect - A prospect is a possibility - the idea that something might happen.
Common misconception
Pupils often fail to realise that they don't have to write from their own perspective.
Inform pupils that it can be incredibly powerful to write from another, imagined perspective.
Teacher tip
When reading the model paragraphs and responses, follow the punctuation closely, to model to pupils how using punctuation shapes voice.
Equipment
You will need access to a copy of the model response used for this lesson. You will find it in the additional materials.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is perspective?
Q2.Which of the following is the noun?
Q3.What is a pronoun?
Q4.How do you sign off a letter to somebody you don't know by name?
Q5.Match the rhetorical device to the example.
dearest friends and esteemed colleagues...
the greedy grabbing by greasy little fingers...
if not you, then who? if not now, then when?
our loyal, devoted and admired public service workers...
a life of neglect, abandonment, misery and heartache...
I now encourage you to look deep within yourselves...
Q6.What is an idiom?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of the following does voice help us to express?
Q2.When considering perspectives to write from, we have to decide who about the topic.
Q3.Which tone best describes the following sentence: It is an utter tragedy that thousands of dogs each and every year are cast aside by their owners, thrown out onto the streets to fend for themselves.
Q4.Someone who sees the worst in people or situations can be described as
Q5.Choose of the following options. Inverted commas are used to show...
Q6.Which of the following uses inverted commas correctly?
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
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