Planning the opening of 'The Happy Prince'
I can plan the opening of ‘The Happy Prince’.
Planning the opening of 'The Happy Prince'
I can plan the opening of ‘The Happy Prince’.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The purpose of the opening is to engage the reader and introduce the setting and characters.
- When we plan, we log precise and ambitious vocabulary to help paint vivid pictures for our reader.
- Fronted adverbials of time, place and manner are included in a plan to add extra detail about the action.
- Dialogue is the written conversation between two characters or more within a narrative and it moves the story forward.
- Figurative language is used in narrative writing to create vivid pictures for the reader.
Common misconception
Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.
Planning should only log key vocabulary and it should be written in note-form using bullet points.
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
Figurative language - the use of metaphor, simile and personification to paint vivid pictures for the reader
Dialogue - the written conversation between two characters or more within a narrative
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a word that describes a noun
a person, place or thing
a doing, being or having word
a word that describes a verb