the term used for a character speaking out loud in a text

shows a character’s feelings by describing their actions, body language and facial expressions

high-level language in writing that meets the text purpose

Writing a narrative scene with direct speech in 'Whale Rider'

English

In this unit, pupils learn to develop speech from a film to varied speech sentence structures. In 'The Viewer', pupils will learn to think of speech sentences that develop character from a picture book.

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

'Whale Rider': narrative writing

The infuriated girl sat on the bench as her face turned red. 

The infuriated girl sat on the bench and her face turned red. 

As the infuriated girl sat on the bench, her face turned red. 

Angrily, the infuriated girl sat on the bench.

Which of the following is an example of a compound sentence?

Which speech first sentence is correctly punctuated?

Paikea angrily asked, ''what did I say?''

Paikea angrily asked. ''What did I say?''

Paikea angrily asked, ''What did I say?''

Which speech second sentence is correctly punctuated?

True or false? A rhetorical question is meant to be answered by the reader. 

Which of the following is an example of **'show-not-tell'** language?

Reluctantly Paikea obeyed her grandfather and she left the Marae.

Reluctantly, Paikea, obeyed her grandfather and she left the Marae. 

Reluctantly, Paikea obeyed her grandfather and she left the Marae. 

Reluctantly Paikea obeyed, her grandfather, and she left the Marae. 

The young girl sings a melodic tune and she holds her head high with pride.

The young girl sang a melodic tune and she held her head high with pride.

The young girl is singing a melodic tune and holding her head high with pride.

The young girl will sing a melodic tune and she will hold her head high.

Which sentence is written in the past tense?

True or false? You can copy out the notes from your plan exactly as they are.

Paikea's face turned red and she looked down at the ground. 

Paikea's face turned red as she looked down at the ground. 

As she looked down at the ground, Paikea's face turned red. 

Which of the following is a simple sentence?

Paikea leads the boys to the Marae by singing.

Koro tells her to move to the back because she is a girl.

Order the four key moments of the build-up chronologically.

What is the name of the punctuation mark used in direct speech to indicate when the words being spoken start and finish?

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

a sentence formed of two main clauses joined by a co-ordinating conjunction

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