the sequence of events that make up the narrative

a lesson that can be learnt from a story or experience

to pull out the key events and ideas from a text

a piece of literature that has stood the test of time

Engaging with the plot of 'The Happy Prince'

English

Exploring the moral and characters in 'The Happy Prince'

Planning the opening of 'The Happy Prince'

Writing the opening of 'The Happy Prince'

Planning the build-up of 'The Happy Prince'

Writing the build-up of 'The Happy Prince'

Planning the climax and resolution of 'The Happy Prince'

Writing the climax of 'The Happy Prince'

Writing the resolution of 'The Happy Prince'

Publishing a piece of narrative writing based on 'The Happy Prince'

In this unit, pupils learn to develop their ability to develop character with vocabulary and speech. In 'Whale Rider', pupils will learn to develop speech from a film to varied speech sentence structures.

In 'The Jabberwocky', pupils learnt to use vocabulary in a wide range of sentence structures with increasing precision to show characterisation. In this unit, pupils will learn to develop their ability to develop character with vocabulary and speech. 

In this unit, pupils write a full narrative based on a rewritten version of the classic 'The Happy Prince'. Pupils write an opening, build-up, climax and resolution, focusing on all parts of the narrative arc in turn and building a full understanding of how each narrative section builds on another.

'The Happy Prince': narrative writing and reading

part of your personality, belief system and behaviour

strong feelings that result from a person’s circumstances, mood or relationship with others

a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

high-level language in writing that meets the text purpose

the use of metaphor, simile and personification to paint vivid pictures for the reader

the written conversation between two characters or more within a narrative

how a text is written to keep the reader engaged

shows that the action happened before now

shows that a character is speaking out loud in a text

a punctuation mark used to show if a noun belongs to another noun

a type of subordinate clause that starts with a relative pronoun

a sentence formed of a main clause and a subordinate clause

a distinct section of a piece of writing, indicated by a new line and an indentation

producing a final, best version that becomes available to others

the way information is organised on the page

visual representations of the characters, settings, and events described in a text

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