Analysing the features of diary entries
I can identify and analyse layout and linguistic features of a diary entry.
Analysing the features of diary entries
I can identify and analyse layout and linguistic features of a diary entry.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The purpose of a diary entry is to recount important personal experiences and to express feelings.
- A diary entry follows a specific structure; it is written in the first person and it uses informal language.
- Simple past and progressive past tenses recount what the writer experienced and felt.
- Fronted adverbials of time support in sequencing events in a recount chronologically.
- Present tense is used at points in a diary entry to show how the writer is feeling now.
Keywords
Purpose - the aim of the text
Recount - a piece of writing that recalls an event or experience
Layout - the way a text is structured
Linguistic features - a structure of language that uses words
Common misconception
Pupils may find it difficult to identify informal language.
Spend some time examining different ways that informal language appears in the model diary entry (e.g. exaggeration, contractions, capitalised words, informal vocabulary).
Equipment
You will need a copy of the 2016 Flying Eye Books edition of ‘The Journey’ by Francesa Sanna for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
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Exit quiz
6 Questions
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