when you are feeling anxious or excited about what may happen

a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions and expressions

a type of subordinate clause that starts with a subordinating conjunction

a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause

Writing the build-up of 'The Iron Man' (part one)

English

'The Jabberwocky: Narrative Writing' - In this unit, pupils learn how to use speech first with inverted commas. In ‘The Jabberwocky’, pupils will learn how to use speech first within complex sentences.

In 'The BFG', pupils learnt to use complex sentences for setting and character descriptions. In this unit, pupils will vary the position of the subordinate clause in a complex sentence.

'The Iron Man': narrative writing

a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense

a word that joins two main clauses to form a compound sentence

Which of the following are subordinating conjunctions?

True or false? An adverbial subordinate clause always follows the main clause.

word or words that can tell the reader where a noun is

a sentence formed of two main clauses and a joining word

a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word

Choose the appropriate subordinating conjunction to complete the following sentence: '__________ Hogarth ran home to tell his parents, his heart was pounding through his chest.'

to introduce the protagonist and set the scene

to describe the main action and take the suspense to its highest point

Hogarth's father went out in search of the Iron Man.

Hogarth's father spotted a tractor bitten in half.

Hogarth's father had a close escape from the Iron Man.

Put the following events in the correct order to show the chronology of events in part one of the build-up.

language that explicitly tells the reader how a character feels

language that conveys a character's feelings through their actions/expressions

Hogarth had an uneasy feeling in his stomach.

Which of the following are examples of 'show and tell' language?

True or false? Using a range of sentence types supports text flow and helps to achieve the text's purpose.

a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense

a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause

Match each sentence type to the correct definition.

Starter Quiz