Planning the opening of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'

English

In this unit, pupils learned how to use a range of fronted adverbials. In the next unit, pupils will learn how to use a wider range of sentence starters.

In 'The BFG', pupils learnt to use complex sentences for setting and character descriptions. In this unit, pupils learn how to use vocabulary in a wider range of sentence structures with increasing precision to show characterisation.

'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing

to engage the reader so that they carry on reading / watching

to entertain the reader with characters' spoken words

What are the purposes of the opening of a narrative?

Fill in the gap: A fronted adverbial of __________ tells the reader **when** the action in the main idea takes place.

Order the three key moments of the opening chronologically . 

Choose an appropriate fronted adverbial to start this sentence: '__________ the man appeared from a desolate shack.' 

notes that can be written in bullet points

Match the emotions to the examples of show-not-tell. 

What are the settings in 'The Man on the Moon'?

Complete this sentence: 'The main characters in 'The Man on the Moon' are the man and {{}}.'

Which of these is a fronted adverbial followed by?

Place the sections of narrative writing in the correct order.

What does a full sentence need to include?

Match the word classes to their definitions. 

Starter Quiz