Lesson video

Hi everybody, it's Ms. Gardner, and welcome to your final lesson from our unit, "Jabberwocky": narrative writing.

I really hope you've enjoyed this unit as much as I have, and thank you for all your hard work.

You've done brilliantly.

Today's a really fun lesson because we get a chance to publish our work.

So let's get started.

In our final lesson from our "Jabberwocky" unit narrative writing, we are going to be publishing our entire narrative.

So your learning outcome is: I can publish a piece of narrative writing based on "Jabberwocky".

Let's start by looking at the keywords.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Publishing.

Layout.

Paragraph.

Illustrations.

Let's have a look at what these mean.

Publishing a piece of writing means to produce a final, best version that becomes available to others.

The layout of a text refers to the way information is organised on the page.

A paragraph is a distinct section of a piece of writing, indicated by a new line and an indentation.

And illustrations provide visual representations of the characters, settings, and events described in a text.

So there are two sections of our lesson today.

In the first, we'll be publishing our narrative writing, and in the second, we'll be looking at illustrations.

So let's start with publishing narrative writing.

So to publish a piece of writing means to produce a final, best version that becomes available to others to read.

It is really important to use neat, joined handwriting when publishing so that it looks really great and that it's visually appealing to the reader.

Publishing your work is also another opportunity to make any final edits and improvements to your writing.

So let's just review the structure of the narrative writing of "Jabberwocky".

We had an opening, a buildup, a climax, and a resolution, and we are going to be publishing all four of these sections of the narrative.

We can use paragraphs to indicate the start of a new section.

So this is an example of the layout of a published piece of narrative writing.

Yours might not look exactly the same as this, and that's completely okay.

This is just an example of how it might be laid out.

So you'd have your title.

Then your opening, because that's the first section of the narrative.

Then you might have an illustration.

And then you will have the buildup because that comes second after the opening.

Then the climax, because that's the third section, and it comes after the buildup.

Then you might have another illustration.

And then finally, you'll have your resolution, the final section of your narrative.

So as I said, don't worry if yours doesn't look exactly laid out like this, but as long as you are following the order of title, then opening, buildup, climax, and resolution, that's the main thing.

And your illustrations can go at different points.

We're gonna talk about that in a bit.

So just checking for understanding.

Which of the following examples shows the layout in an appropriate way for the first page of your narrative? So A, you have your climax first, then the title, then the resolution.

In B, you have the title at the top, then the buildup, then the opening.

Or C, you have the title at the top, then the opening, then an illustration, and then the buildup.

Pause the video now.

That is C.

You have your title at the top centre, then an opening, then an illustration, and then the buildup.

The opening comes before the buildup.

Well done.

So in a moment, you are going to design the layout of your narrative writing on a piece or pieces of lined paper.

So you might need two pieces of paper.

You'll start with your title at the top of the page and in the centre.

And then you are going to plan where you're going to write your four paragraphs, so your opening, your buildup, your climax, and your resolution.

But you need to make sure that you leave blank spaces for where you want your illustrations to go.

You are not going to draw the illustrations just yet.

That will come later in the second part of this lesson.

But you need to make sure you have left some blank space on your page where you will be drawing your illustrations.

So this is the success criteria that you are going to use today to help you with publishing your writing.

Let's go through it.

I have designed the layout of my narrative to allow appropriate space for each paragraph.

I have used neat, joined handwriting to publish my narrative.

I have checked the spelling of ambitious vocabulary.

And I have drawn at least two illustrations.

So here is an example of some published narrative writing.

So let's use the success criteria to check that I've done everything I was supposed to do to make this a successful outcome.

Have I designed the layout of my narrative to allow appropriate space for each paragraph? I have.

I had enough space on both pages to be able to write my opening, then the buildup, then the climax on the next page, and then finally, my resolution.

And I have left space for an illustration on the first page and an illustration on the second page.

But I'm not gonna draw them just yet, but I know that that's where I'll draw them.

So I can give myself a tick.

Have I used neat, joined handwriting to publish my narrative? I have done that.

I've tried really hard to make every word cursive and as neatly joined as possible.

So I can give myself a tick.

Have I checked the spelling of ambitious vocabulary? I made sure that any spelling errors I made when I originally wrote these pieces of writing I corrected and I was checking my spelling before I wrote them down in my published piece of writing so that I didn't have to have any crosses out.

So yes, I can give myself a tick.

Have I drawn at least two illustrations? Not yet.

So I'm not going to give myself a tick, but that's okay.

So just a reminder that when you are publishing your writing, remember to do all of these.

Indent the start of a new paragraph.

So that means leaving a space between the margin and the first word of every paragraph.

This makes sure it's really clear to the reader where the start of a new paragraph is.

Also, because we've got speech in this narrative, you need to remember that when there is a new speaker, you need to start a new line.

And then I know I've said this before, but just as a reminder, make sure you leave some space for your illustrations.

So it is time for task A.

You need to get some lined paper.

You might need two pieces of paper because we have written an opening, a buildup, a climax, and a resolution.

It's quite a lot of writing.

Then you are not going to have to think of loads of new ideas and rewrite your whole narrative again.

You are going to use the versions that you've written in earlier lessons in this unit that you have edited already and you have checked over and maybe it's been marked and you've made some corrections.

You are going to use the final unedited version of your narrative to publish it.

So you are going to use the success criteria to help you to make sure you are doing everything you need to do in this publishing outcome.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Okay, well done, everybody.

Welcome back.

I hope you enjoyed publishing your narrative and that it was really fun to be reading back through everything you've written throughout the unit.

So if you have designed the layout of your narrative and allowed enough space for each paragraph and illustration, you can give yourself a tick.

If you used neat and joined handwriting, you can give yourself a tick.

Did you check if you have checked the spellings? Maybe you could use a thesaurus or a dictionary or go back through your previous plans to make sure you spelt it correctly.

If you have checked the spellings of any ambitious vocabulary, then you can give yourself a tick.

And none of you should be ticking the final box in the success criteria because we are going to look at illustrations in the next section of the lesson.

So if you need to, you can pause the video and go and make any final edits to this published entry.

Otherwise, really well done and I hope you enjoyed that.

So it's now time for the second section of our lesson where we are looking at illustrations.

So illustrations are often found in fictional texts.

Illustrations provide visual representations of the characters, the settings, and the events described in the text.

And this helps reader to better imagine and engage with the story.

Illustrations can bring the story to life and make it more vivid in the reader's mind.

Illustrations can also convey emotions and moods.

So they can capture the facial expressions and body language that enhance the reader's understandings of the character's feelings and actions.

So for example, if you were drawing a picture of the boy when he's about to fight the Jabberwock, maybe you could draw his face with his mouth wide open and really wide eyes so that you are showing the reader through your illustrations just how scared the boy was.

So you wrote a version of the narrative "Jabberwocky".

Now you are going to add illustrations of the key moments to your published piece of writing, so the piece of writing that you wrote in the first section of this lesson.

Think about this question now.

What key moments of "Jabberwocky" could you include? Pause the video now and discuss this question with your partner or your class or whoever you are with.

Off you go.

Okay, so here are some possible responses.

What key moments of "Jabberwocky" could you draw? Maybe the strange creatures tormenting the forest.

And that would be nice because then you'd get to draw the setting of the enchanted forest too.

The Jabberwock approaching that boy, that really scary moment in the buildup.

And then that most exciting moment in the climax, the fight between the boy and the Jabberwock.

There were other moments as well that you could be describing.

These were just some possible ideas.

So let's learn to draw an illustration that could appear in the narrative, and you can use different sources to help you draw this illustration.

Maybe you can find some pictures on the internet, maybe in books, maybe videos of the Jabberwock online.

There were some images in previous lessons that you could refer to, and you could just use your imagination.

So you can choose two key moments from "Jabberwocky" that you would like to draw.

We are going to draw the strange creatures tormenting the forest together.

So you will need these materials: paper, pencils, erasers or rubbers, and then wax crayons or coloured pencils.

So let's start doing this together.

The first thing you need to do is start by drawing or sketching the outline of the trees in the forest.

So we're starting to draw the setting of the enchanted forest.

You can see in the picture there that I haven't drawn this really detailed or really neatly.

It's more just a sketch or an outline of the forest and the trees and the ground.

Then you can add the outline of the creatures.

Now remember, these are mythical creatures, the Jubjub bird, the Bandersnatch, the Jabberwock.

They don't exist.

We don't know what they look like.

So you can be really creative here.

They don't have to look like any specific animal.

They might look really abnormal or unfamiliar, and that's great.

You can use your imagination here because these are mythical creatures that don't exist.

So for example, like this.

But here again, I've just drawn the outline.

I've not added too much detail just yet.

Then the third thing you'll need to do is add details to the creatures' appearance.

So just like this, I've added in some teeth, I've added scales, I've added feathers, sharp claws, just some extra details.

And then finally, I've coloured in the illustration.

And you can colour in your illustration with wax crayons or colouring pencils or felt tips or whatever you have.

So hopefully all of our illustrations will look really different.

And that's a really good thing, because as I said, we have no idea what these creatures look like.

They are imaginary and mythical.

So you can have lots of fun drawing these images.

Okay, it is time for task B.

You need to take your published piece of narrative writing from the first section of the lessons and find the blank spaces.

Then you need to draw two illustrations of key moments from "Jabberwocky".

So pause the video now and off you go.

Okay, well done, everybody.

Welcome back.

I hope you've enjoyed drawing these moments from the "Jabberwocky".

You can see here that I have added in two illustrations to my published piece of work.

The first, on the first page, just underneath the opening was of the woods and of the creatures, and I've tried to draw the Jubjub bird and the Bandersnatch and the Jabberwock.

And then on the second page, just to the right of the resolution, I have drawn a bigger picture of what I imagined the Jabberwock to look like.

I thought about drawing his burning red eyes because we know that's what he was described as having in the poem.

Really sharp claws, big wings and sharp teeth.

So now I can tick off my success criteria.

I have designed the layout of the narrative, and I left enough space for my illustrations, so I can tick that off.

I used neat handwriting, I checked my spellings, and now I've also drawn my illustrations.

So now pause the video and go back through just checking everything in your success criteria.

Really well done, everybody, and I really hope that you've enjoyed publishing your "Jabberwocky" narrative as much as I have.

So here is a summary of everything we've learned today.

Neat, joined handwriting is important when publishing.

A published piece of writing is the final, best version.

A published piece of writing should be visually and linguistically appealing to the reader.

Illustrations provide visual representations of the characters, settings, and events described in the text.

And illustrations can bring the world of the story to life and make it more vivid in the reader's mind.

Thank you so much for all your hard work in this unit.

You've all done absolutely fantastically and you should be so proud of all the work that you have produced.

So really well done.