Planning a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'

English

In this unit, pupils embed narrative skills including show-not-tell and dialogue to convey character and a were introduced to a range of cohesive devices. In 'The Viewer', pupils will further develop their use of cohesive devices and develop strategies to build suspense when describing a setting.

In 'Whale Rider', pupils developed their narrative writing skills by using show-not-tell and dialogue to convey character. In this unit, pupils will further embed these skills and use a range of devices to build cohesion. 

'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing

describes the environment in which a story is taking place

 tells the reader when, where or how something happened

Select the purposes of a setting description.

Match the types of fronted adverbials to their examples.

contains a verb and makes complete sense on its own

contains a verb and does not make sense on its own

a type of subordinate clause starting with a subordinating conjunction

Match the clause types to their definitions:

The moon illuminated the night sky and the stars twinkled playfully.

Waves crashed violently as the wind howled like a monster.

Match the sentence types to their examples.

a naming word for a person, place or thing

What are the verbs in this sentence? "Clouds hung in the night sky and the moon shone eerily."

A clause is a group of words that contains a __________.

Which of these groups of words could be complete simple sentences? 

Which sentence type consists of two main clauses joined by a co-ordinating conjunction?

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