Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger before their arrival in the UK
I can write the diary entry of an imagined Windrush passenger before arriving in the UK, using a conversational tone and a range of cohesive devices.
Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger before their arrival in the UK
I can write the diary entry of an imagined Windrush passenger before arriving in the UK, using a conversational tone and a range of cohesive devices.
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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.
Keywords
Conversational tone - the effect created by using language features such as conversational sentence openers that may break normal ‘rules’ of writing
Exclamative - a word, phrase or sentence that expresses strong emotion or surprise
Verbless sentence - a conversational or informal sentence that does not contain a verb, breaking the normal written convention
Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion
Common misconception
Pupils will have been taught that exclamation sentences must contain a verb, as in 'What a mess there is!'
We use the term exclamative to include verbless construction like 'How cool!' alongside 'proper' exclamation sentences like 'How warm it is!'.
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