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Identifying features of a diary entry to write from 'How To Train Your Dragon'
I can identify and analyse layout and linguistic features of a diary entry.
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Year 5
Identifying features of a diary entry to write from 'How To Train Your Dragon'
I can identify and analyse layout and linguistic features of a diary entry.
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Key learning points
- A diary entry is a type of recount written in the first person.
- A diary entry is informal in its tone.
- The purpose of a diary entry is to recount events and record thoughts and feelings.
- A diary entry can be sequenced in chronological order.
- A diary entry may switch between past, present and future tenses.
Keywords
Purpose - the aim of the text
Recount - a piece of writing that recalls an event or experience
Layout - the way a text is structured
Linguistic features - structures of language that use words
Common misconception
Pupils may think that a diary is written entirely in the past tense.
Examples of present and future tense are referred to and modelled in the examples given. Emphasise repeatedly to pupils that a range of tenses will be used in a diary.
If pupils need additional consolidation of apostrophes for contraction, explicit lessons on this can be found in the Y5 Grammar unit 'Speech punctuation, parenthesis and apostrophes'.
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6 Questions
Q1.
What is a diary?
a fictional narrative involving magical creatures
a non-fiction text providing information to others
Q2.
What does writing in the 'first person' mean?
writing about things that are going to happen
writing about yourself and calling yourself by your name
Q3.
Which of these words might a writer use when writing in the first person?
you
they
Q4.
A diary greeting normally starts with which word?
Goodbye
Hello
Be right back
Q5.
What does chronological order mean?
order of importance
order of height
Q6.
What usually comes at the very beginning of a diary entry?
a drawing
the name of the person writing it
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6 Questions
Q1.
Match the keywords to their definitions.
the aim of the text
writing that recalls an event or experience
the way a text is structured
structures of language that use words
Q2.
What is the purpose of a diary entry?
to tell a fictional story
to share your feelings with other people
to write recipes
Q3.
Put the following in the order they appear in a diary entry.
Q4.
Which of the following linguistic features appear in a diary entry?
third person
formal language
Q5.
Which tense does the writer use when writing a diary entry?
Q6.
Which of the following supports the sequencing of events chronologically?
fronted adverbials of manner
viewpoint fronted adverbials
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