A set of actions that have been thought of as a way to do or achieve something.

The feeling or sense evoked by an environment or setting.

Describing something in an interesting and detailed way.

To bring (a memory, feeling, image, etc.) into the mind.

The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader.

Using vocabulary choices, similes, and metaphors to plan descriptive writing

English

Writing complete sentences and correcting sentence fragments

Responding to an unseen extract from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Using adjectives and semantic fields to plan and write descriptive paragraphs

Using simple, compound and complex sentences in descriptive writing

Using dashes, colons, and commas for effect in descriptive writing

Using adverbs, subordinate clauses and compound sentences in descriptive writing

Drafting a piece of descriptive writing on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'

Using precise evidence from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' to support an idea

Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'

Using sensory language and figurative language to create an atmospheric setting

Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

Practising planning and writing a detailed description based on an image

Identifying and emulating Baum's use of pathetic fallacy in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing Dorothy's return from the unknown in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Developing your explanation of quotations from 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Explaining and emulating how Bilan uses light in 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Meeting a fantastical creature in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Writing clear analytical paragraphs about Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sensory language in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sentence structures in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Explaining how Akala uses patterns of language for effect in 'The Dark Lady'

Revising topic sentences and selecting precise evidence from 'The Dark Lady'

Developing explanations in analytical writing about Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Contrasting the familiar and the unknown in your descriptive writing

Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing

Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere

In 'Step into the Unknown', pupils learn how to use a variety of sentences for deliberate effect. In the 'Dystopian Settings' unit, pupils will continue to use a range of sentence structures, to create atmospheric descriptions.

In 'When the Sky Falls' pupils write narratives inspired by a text. In 'Step Into the Unknown', using extracts from texts from the literary canon, pupils write descriptions of settings.

In this unit, pupils develop their fiction reading and creative writing by reading extracts from famous fiction and then emulating key techniques in their own writing. They start by securing and extending their knowledge of key sentence grammar, before reading and emulating the extracts.

Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing

The general feeling that a writer creates.

The amount of linguistic devices a writer uses.

The way a writer chooses to open and close a text.

What emotion does the adjective 'intimidating' create?

The feeling or sense created by an environment or setting.

Where the first line mirrors the closing line of a text.

Where the writer uses negative adjectives to create an unsettling effect.

To bring (a memory, feeling, image, etc.) into the mind is to {{ }} something.

Take an object form the scene and add an adjective

Find something to compare it to that fits with the mood

Starting with the first, place the steps to create a simile in chronological order.

They can make the abstract more familiar.

They add ambitious vocabulary to your writing.

They add ambitious punctuation to your writing.

They can make the abstract less familiar.

Why might similes and metaphors be effective in descriptive writing?

the person, place or thing that is doing the action

What emotion does the adjective 'delightful' suggest?

when you go back and improve and edit your writing

when you think about how you're going to do your writing

when you read someone else's writing and offer suggestions

where you give human characteristics to non-human things

where you create a comparison using 'like' or 'as'

where you create a comparison by saying something is something else

Writing that describes something in an interesting and detailed way is called {{ }} writing.

Using vocabulary choices, similes, and metaphors to plan descriptive writing

Lesson outcome