Using feedback to improve dystopian descriptions
I can use feedback to improve specific aspects of my descriptive writing.
Using feedback to improve dystopian descriptions
I can use feedback to improve specific aspects of my descriptive writing.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Sentence level accuracy includes spelling, punctuation, sentence structures, syntax and fluency
- Re-writing a section of your descriptive writing is important as it shows a good understanding of the feedback
- It is important to understand where a mistake is, so that it can be avoided in the next piece of descriptive writing
Keywords
Grammar - Grammar refers to the rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences.
Tense - A verb’s tense will tell you whether the action happened in the past, present or future.
Foreboding - A feeling of something bad about to happen can be described as a feeling of foreboding.
Homophones - If two words are pronounced the same way but spelled differently they can be described as homophones (e.g. here and hear).
Desolate - If a place is uninhabited and gives an impression of bleak emptiness, it can be described as desolate.
Common misconception
That the first draft is the final draft.
The best writing is achieved through a cycle of initial creation, feedback and re-drafting.
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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Adult supervision recommended
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
goes before a list or explanation.
indicates a pause between two independent, related clauses.
interrupt a sentence to give extra information.