Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'
I can generate precise vocabulary to plan a narrative setting description.
Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'
I can generate precise vocabulary to plan a narrative setting description.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- ‘A Christmas Carol’ is set in Victorian London during the Christmas period.
- The atmosphere is the tone or mood created in a narrative.
- Precise vocabulary, including a range of sensory details, conveys the atmosphere in a narrative setting description.
- Personification is a linguistic device used to describe a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human.
Keywords
Atmosphere - the tone or mood created in a narrative
Sensory details - descriptions that include touch, sight, taste, sound and smell
Personification - a way of describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult to identify appropriate adjectives and verbs and develop their own pieces of personification.
Brainstorm as a class and create a shared bank of human adjectives and verbs that would be appropriate for personifying elements of the scene. Children can then use this bank to support them in forming their own pieces of personification.
To help you plan your year 4 english lesson on: Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol', download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 4 english lesson on: Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol', download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 2 english lessons from the 'A Christmas Carol': narrative writing and reading unit, dive into the full secondary english curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Licence
Lesson video
Loading...
Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
excited giggles travelled
orange and cinnamon wafted
glistening, festive wreaths dangled
crunch of roasted chestnuts
crisp, frosty air sent chills