Key learning points

1. Writing is most successful when structure, content and vocabulary are planned.
2. We aim to use a range of narrative elements in our writing and to set an appropriate mood with them.
3. We use a range of cohesive devices to connect ideas, including a variety of fronted adverbials.
4. Short sentences, rhetorical questions and 'quick' fronted adverbials of time can add pace to a piece of writing.
5. Dashes can add dramatic effect, often by restating the noun phrase that is being described in a different way.

Keywords

• Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion

• Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma

• Dashes - a punctuation mark to add extra information in a clause often for dramatic effect

• Oral rehearsal - practising saying ideas for sentences out loud before you write them

Common misconception