Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger after their arrival in the UK
I can write the diary entry of an imagined Windrush passenger after arriving in the UK, using a conversational tone and a range of cohesive devices.
Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger after their arrival in the UK
I can write the diary entry of an imagined Windrush passenger after arriving in the UK, using a conversational tone and a range of cohesive devices.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Writing is most successful when we orally rehearse before writing.
- A diary can include events and feelings written in the past and present tense.
- We use a range of cohesive devices in all writing, including different punctuation, sentence types and parenthesis.
- Because a diary is a personal piece of writing, it can have a conversational tone.
- We can create a conversational tone using questions, exclamatives, verbless sentences and conversational openers.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that every single verb in a past or present tense paragraph has to stick to that tense.
We're writing from a present or a past tense perspective, but the way that language works means that not every verb will be in the same tense in a paragraph. Encourage the children to think about what 'sounds right' and to orally rehearse sentences.
Keywords
Conversational tone - the effect created by using language features such as conversational sentence openers that may break normal ‘rules’ of writing
Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion
Orally rehearse - when we say aloud the sentences we want to write before we write them
Licence
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How strange!
What would my mother say?
An absolute mess.
But here I am.