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’.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
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.
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
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.
Licence
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a word that describes a noun
a person, place or thing
a doing, being or having word
a word that describes a verb