Starter quiz
- Diaries are written about ...
- made-up characters
- made-up settings
- real events ✓
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- When writing a diary pretending to be another person, you are writing from that person's ...
- house
- perspective ✓
- opinion
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- True or false? Past tense tells the reader that something happened before now.
- True ✓
- False
- Which of these verbs are past tense?
- see
- seeing
- saw ✓
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- Which of these words would you find in a piece of writing written in the 'first person'?
- you
- me ✓
- they
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- When we write, which of these do we always try and do?
- Read our sentences out loud to check they make sense and edit to improve ✓
- Never read our sentences out loud
- Read the first sentence out loud only
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Exit quiz
- In a diary, you will use lots of ...
- past tense verbs ✓
- future tense verbs
- question marks
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- Which of these is a past tense verb?
- sweep
- sweeping
- swept ✓
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- Which of these is a past tense verb?
- clean
- cleaned ✓
- cleaning
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- Which is the past tense verb in this sentence: Last week, I visited the zoo.
- last
- visited ✓
- zoo
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- What is the past tense version of the word 'add'?
- added ✓
- adding
- addt
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- True or false? When we write a plan, we use notes.
- True ✓
- False
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Writing in a diary will mostly be in the past tense.
- Past tense tells the reader something happened before now.
- Notes are used when making a plan and they are short and only capture key vocabulary and important information.
Common misconception
Pupils may write full sentences in their plan.
Teach children how to write notes which are short and capture key vocabulary and important information. Encourage children to include adverbs and joining words that they want to use, but written out of full sentences.
Keywords
Past tense - a way of writing that tells the reader something happened in the past
Verb - a doing or a being word
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
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