New
New
Year 2

Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

I can make a plan for writing a diary entry as Florence Nightingale.

New
New
Year 2

Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

I can make a plan for writing a diary entry as Florence Nightingale.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Writing in a diary will mostly be in the past tense.
  2. Past tense tells the reader something happened before now.
  3. Notes are used when making a plan and they are short and only capture key vocabulary and important information.

Keywords

  • Past tense - a way of writing that tells the reader something happened in the past

  • Verb - a doing or a being word

  • Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

Common misconception

Pupils may write full sentences in their plan.

Teach children how to write notes which are short and capture key vocabulary and important information. Encourage children to include adverbs and joining words that they want to use, but written out of full sentences.

Pupils can practise writing full sentences using their notes on mini-whiteboards ahead of writing this section.
Teacher tip

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Diaries are written about ...
made-up characters
made-up settings
Correct answer: real events
Q2.
When writing a diary pretending to be another person, you are writing from that person's ...
house
Correct answer: perspective
opinion
Q3.
True or false? Past tense tells the reader that something happened before now.
Correct Answer: true, True
Q4.
Which of these verbs are past tense?
see
seeing
Correct answer: saw
Q5.
Which of these words would you find in a piece of writing written in the 'first person'?
you
Correct answer: me
they
Q6.
When we write, which of these do we always try and do?
Correct answer: Read our sentences out loud to check they make sense and edit to improve
Never read our sentences out loud
Read the first sentence out loud only

6 Questions

Q1.
In a diary, you will use lots of ...
Correct answer: past tense verbs
future tense verbs
question marks
Q2.
Which of these is a past tense verb?
sweep
sweeping
Correct answer: swept
Q3.
Which of these is a past tense verb?
clean
Correct answer: cleaned
cleaning
Q4.
Which is the past tense verb in this sentence: Last week, I visited the zoo.
last
Correct answer: visited
zoo
Q5.
What is the past tense version of the word 'add'?
Correct answer: added
adding
addt
Q6.
True or false? When we write a plan, we use notes.
Correct Answer: true, True