Planning the opening of a diary entry 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

the point of view where the speaker or writer is the 'I/we' character

How should your notes for a diary be organised?

two words joined together using an apostrophe

when the writer conveys feelings by describing physical sensations

the sort of writing that you write to yourself or a friend

main body part 1 - describing dragon training

main body part 2 - describing dragon training

Order the parts of our diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'.

Select the examples of show-not-tell from the list:

Select appropriate adjectives to describe how Hiccup felt during dragon training:

Which of the following are key linguistic features in a diary entry?

Order the following to show the layout of a diary entry.

a framework that writers create before they write

True or false? This diary entry should be written in a formal tone.

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