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Identifying the features of a diary entry
I can identify the different features of a diary entry.
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Year 2
Identifying the features of a diary entry
I can identify the different features of a diary entry.
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Key learning points
- A diary is a personal book where you write about your thoughts, feelings and experiences.
- Features are distinctive qualities or characteristics of something.
- The features of a diary entry include writing in the first person and past tense.
- Diary entries usually include feelings and emotions.
Keywords
Diary - a personal book where you write about your thoughts, feelings, and experiences
Features - distinctive qualities or characteristics of something
Recount - to tell again or describe something that happened in the past
Common misconception
Children may just think that writing a diary is just another task they have to do, rather than a personal and creative outlet.
Teach the children the benefits of keeping a diary. Link this to their mental health and how this will help them to maintain positive mental health.
Find some examples of diary entries in texts that the pupils may be familiar with. Children could work in pairs to pull out the features from different diary entries.
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
True or false? A non-fiction text presents factual information on real-life things.
Q2.
Which of these is a non-fiction text?
a poem
a fairytale
Q3.
Which of these things would you find in a non-fiction text?
made-up settings
made-up characters
Q4.
A non-fiction text may contain questions to ...
... the writer.
... the illustrator.
Q5.
A question to the reader should always end with what piece of punctuation?
full stop
comma
Q6.
What should a writer do before writing a sentence?
write it on a piece of scrap paper first
say it in their head
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
True or false? A recount is a way of telling others what has happened to you.
Q2.
A diary entry is a form of ...
poem.
fiction story.
Q3.
Writing in the 'first person' means ...
you write about things that have already happened.
you write about yourself but call yourself by name.
Q4.
Which of these words might a writer use when writing in the first person?
you
they
Q5.
A diary greeting always starts with which word?
Hi
Hello
To
Q6.
What usually comes at the very beginning of a diary entry?
the weather
the location the writer is in