the process of improving writing to improve text flow and overall quality

a set of standardised symbols and marks used in written language to structure sentences

the way that words are arranged within sentences to convey meaning

Editing the build-up of 'The Highwayman'

English

In 'The Highwayman: Narrative Writing', pupils will develop their understanding of how to create atmosphere and engage the reader using figurative language. In 'Shakespeare's ’Macbeth’: Narrative and Soliloquy Writing', pupils will use figurative language to write a narrative based on Shakespearean tragedy and convey characters' thoughts and feelings through soliloquy writing.

In 'The Viewer', pupils developed their use of cohesive devices and show-not-tell to convey character. In 'The Highwayman: Narrative Writing', pupils will develop their understanding of how to create atmosphere and engage the reader using figurative language.

In this unit, pupils use 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes as the stimulus from which to write a character and setting description, a narrative build-up in third person prose and a section incorporating varied speech sentences. Pupils complete the unit reciting and memorising parts of the poem.

'The Highwayman': narrative writing

the process of improving writing to improve text flow

standardised symbols and marks used in written language

how words are arranged and organised to convey meaning

Match the key words to their definitions:

to separate adjectives in an expanded noun phrase

after a subordinate clause that comes first in a complex sentence

Which of these are types of language choice that you would use in a narrative build-up?

selecting which parts of the writing to improve

making edits to punctuation, grammar and sentence structure

Which of these are part of the editing process?

Select the fronted adverbials from the list:

explains when, where or how something happened

conveys characters' feelings through their actions and gestures

two hyphenated words which form one adjective

a set of standardised symbols and marks to structure sentences

how words are arranged within sentences to convey meaning

Select the sentence that uses apostrophes for singular possession correctly.

Select the sentence that uses apostrophes for plural possession correctly.

Match the fronted adverbial types to their examples:

Match the subordinate clauses to their examples.

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