Key learning points

1. A postcard is written to someone when you are away somewhere, in this case Paddington in London.
2. Postcards are written in the first person, using 'I', 'me' or 'my'.
3. Adding descriptive language about places and feelings can help the person reading it imagine the experience.
4. A postcard needs to start with a greeting to who you are writing to, using 'Dear ...' or 'To ...'.
5. A list of places you have seen can be included in a postcard, with a comma in between and 'and' before the final place.

Keywords

• Perspective - point of view

• Expanded noun phrase - two adjectives listed to describe a noun

• Noun - a naming word for people, places and things

• Fronted adverbial of time - a sentence starter that tells the reader when something happens

• Comma - a punctuation mark used to separate nouns in a list or adjectives in an expanded noun phrase

Common misconception