a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun

Generating vocabulary to describe the characters in the story ‘Lucky Dip'

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In this unit, pupils have learned how to use an apostrophe for contraction when writing sentences as part of a narrative. In 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: Non-Chronological Report', pupils will build on this by using this skill in sentences written within a different text type. 

In 'Otherwise: Narrative Writing', pupils learned how write compound sentences using co-ordinating conjunctions. In this unit, pupils will build on this knowledge by writing complex sentences using a range of jining conjunctions.

'Lucky Dip': narrative writing

True or false? Fiction stories involve made-up characters.

Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'The writer can use their __________ to create whatever characters they want to be in their story.'

Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'A __________ is a person or animal in a fictional story.'

Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'A character’s __________ is what they look like.'

The writer can control how the reader feels about a character by choosing particular adjectives when describing. Which of these adjectives would describe a character in a **positive** way?

Which adjective would describe the Pin Man's personality in a **negative** way?

What is the name for the place where a story is set?

True or false? A setting must be described in as much detail as possible to help the reader clearly picture it in their mind.

When describing a setting in detail, a writer will include lots of ...

In an expanded noun phrase, what comes between the two adjectives?

Which of these is an example of an **expanded noun phrase**?

Which of these nouns could be described with the adjectives 'icy' and 'blustery'?

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