Planning a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
I can plan a setting description based on ‘How To Train Your Dragon’.
Planning a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'
I can plan a setting description based on ‘How To Train Your Dragon’.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The setting description describes where the narrative takes place.
- Adverbial detail describes when, where or how things happened.
- Ambitious, precise verbs and descriptive adjectives help the reader visualise the scene.
- Using a range of sentence types enhances text cohesion.
Keywords
Purpose - the aim of the text
Setting description - a description of the setting or environment in which a story is taking place
Linguistic features - structures of language that use words
Adverbial detail - tells the reader when, where or how something happened
Adverbial complex sentence - a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause
Common misconception
Pupils may find it challenging to identify different sentence and clause types.
Ensure there is explicit teaching of simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences that is additional to this lesson, for example in discrete grammar lessons.
Licence
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Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a naming word for a person, place or thing
a doing, being or having word
a word that describes a noun
a word that describes a verb
Exit quiz
6 Questions
the aim of the text
describes the environment in which a story is taking place
structures of language that use words
tells the reader when, where or how something happened
a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause
powerful
hillside
crashed
deafeningly
That night,
Against the cliffs' edges,
With a deafening roar,
contains a verb and makes complete sense on its own
contains a verb and does not make sense on its own
a type of subordinate clause starting with a subordinating conjunction
The stars illuminated the night sky.
The moon illuminated the night sky and the stars twinkled playfully.
Waves crashed violently as the wind howled like a monster.