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Year 2
Planning the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'
I can make a plan for writing the opening of ‘Lucky Dip’.
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Year 2
Planning the opening of ‘Lucky Dip'
I can make a plan for writing the opening of ‘Lucky Dip’.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Creating a plan is a good way to help you prepare before completing a piece of writing
- Our plans will contain ambitious vocabulary
- Two adjectives in an expanded noun phrase should be separated by a comma
- Adverbs should be used to describe a verb
Keywords
Planning - preparing to write by generating vocabulary
Ambitious vocabulary - using words that are precise and descriptive
Common misconception
Pupils may think that all words are ambitious vocabulary.
Teach pupils that there can be multiple options when selecting vocabulary and they need to carefully choose the most precise words in their writing.
You may wish to use the Year 1 Word Class unit to ensure all pupils are confident on that before tackling this lesson.
Teacher tip
Equipment
You need access to the 2001 animation ‘Lucky Dip’ by Emily Skinner for this lesson.
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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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
What type of stories involve made-up characters?
non-fiction
both
Q2.
When writing a fiction story, a writer will create ...
punctuation rules.
nothing at all.
Q3.
True or false? A character is a person or animal in a fictional story. They are not real and have been created by the mind of the writer.
Q4.
To try and put a character in the reader's mind, the writer must describe ...
their shoe size.
everything else but not that character.
Q5.
A character's appearance is ...
how the sound.
how they behave.
Q6.
When describing a character, a writer will often use expanded noun phrases. Which of these is an example of an expanded noun phrase?
eyes
hair
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of these sections of a story comes first?
climax
resolution
build-up
Q2.
Put these sections of a story in the correct order.
Q3.
The opening introduces the reader to the setting and the ...
smaller characters.
entire list of characters in the story.
Q4.
The main character in 'Lucky Dip' is ...
Emily's grandmother.
Emily's grandfather.
Q5.
True or false? A plan should contain ambitious vocabulary.
Q6.
Which of these adjectives is an example of ambitious vocabulary?
big
cold