Key learning points

1. The purpose of the opening is to engage the reader and introduce the setting and characters.
2. Precise and ambitious vocabulary is logged on a plan for future use.
3. Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to make notes clear.
4. Fronted adverbials of time, place and manner indicate when, where and how action takes place.
5. 'Show-not-tell' language shows a character’s feelings by describing their actions, body language and facial expressions.

Keywords

• Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

• Notes - written out of full sentences

• Ambitious vocabulary - high-level language in writing that meets the text purpose

• Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma

• 'show-not-tell' - showing a character’s feelings by describing their body language and facial expressions

Common misconception