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Year 1

Describing the setting of 'Wild'

You can write descriptive sentences about the setting in the story, 'Wild'.

New
New
Year 1

Describing the setting of 'Wild'

You can write descriptive sentences about the setting in the story, 'Wild'.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Senses help us to experience and describe the setting, in this case, the forest.
  2. The five senses are sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste.
  3. An adjective or list of 2 adjectives can describe a noun, such as "wild forest" or "noisy, chirping birds".
  4. Using descriptions with adjectives makes writing more interesting.
  5. The joining word "and" can be used to join to complete ideas into a full sentence.

Common misconception

Pupils may try to join more than two ideas using "and".

Remind pupils that "and" only likes to be used once in a sentence, joining only two ideas.

Keywords

  • Setting - where the story takes place

  • Sense - the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste

  • Adjective - a word that describes a noun

  • Expanded noun phrase - a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun

  • Sentence - an idea that makes complete sense including a verb

Get pupils to rehearse sentences aloud before writing, taking note of punctuation, finger space and key vocabulary.
Teacher tip

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Correct answer: I ate a snack.
i ate a snack
i ate a snack.
I ate A snack.
Q2.
"__________ got the flag." Complete this sentence with the correct spelling.
Shee
Shi
Se
Correct answer: She
Q3.
Which sentence is in the correct order so it makes sense?
has three dogs. He
three dogs. He has
Correct answer: He has three dogs.
dogs. three has He
Q4.
Which sentence uses a comma correctly?
The , purple fast car was on the road.
The , purple, fast, car was on the road
The purple fast car was on the road.
Correct answer: The purple, fast car was on the road.
Q5.
“I walked to the hot beach.” Match the word to its word type based on this sentence.
Correct Answer:Adjective,hot

hot

Correct Answer:Verb,walked

walked

Correct Answer:Noun,beach

beach

Q6.
Match the past tense verb to the present tense verb.
Correct Answer:heard,hear

hear

Correct Answer:saw,see

see

Correct Answer:smelt,smell

smell

Correct Answer:felt,touch

touch

Correct Answer:tasted,taste

taste

6 Questions

Q1.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
i heard foxes.
Correct answer: I heard foxes.
i heard foxes
I Heard Foxes.
Q2.
Match the sense to the correct body part.
Correct Answer:Sight,eye

eye

Correct Answer:Smell,nose

nose

Correct Answer:Touch,hands

hands

Correct Answer:Taste,mouth

mouth

Correct Answer:Hearing,ears

ears

Q3.
Match the adjective that best suits the noun.
Correct Answer:bird,noisy

noisy

Correct Answer:berries,juicy

juicy

Correct Answer:branches,spiky

spiky

Q4.
Which sentence uses a comma correctly?
Correct answer: I saw bright, green flowers.
I saw, bright green flowers.
I saw bright green, flowers.
Q5.
Which sentence joins two ideas correctly?
Correct answer: I saw flowers and I heard birds.
I saw flowers I heard birds.
I saw and flowers I heard birds.
I saw and heard flowers birds.
Q6.
Order these events in the story “Wild” from the beginning to end.
1 - The little girl is born in the magical, enchanted forest.
2 - She is taken away to the strange, different house.
3 - She returns to the safe, free forest with her friends.