Planning the opening of ‘Lucky Dip' | English | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

What type of stories involve made-up characters?
- fiction ✓
- non-fiction
- both
When writing a fiction story, a writer will create ...
- characters. ✓
- punctuation rules.
- nothing at all.
True or false? A character is a person or animal in a fictional story. They are not real and have been created by the mind of the writer.
- True ✓
- False
To try and put a character in the reader's mind, the writer must describe ...
- their shoe size.
- their appearance and personality. ✓
- everything else but not that character.
A character's appearance is ...
- how the sound.
- how they look. ✓
- how they behave.
When describing a character, a writer will often use expanded noun phrases. Which of these is an example of an expanded noun phrase?
- eyes
- hair
- wide, angry eyes ✓

Which of these sections of a story comes first?
- climax
- opening ✓
- resolution
- build-up
Put these sections of a story in the correct order.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  opening
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  build-up
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  climax
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  resoluton
The opening introduces the reader to the setting and the ...
- smaller characters.
- main characters. ✓
- entire list of characters in the story.
The main character in 'Lucky Dip' is ...
- Emily. ✓
- Emily's grandmother.
- Emily's grandfather.
True or false? A plan should contain ambitious vocabulary.
- True ✓
- False
Which of these adjectives is an example of ambitious vocabulary?
- big
- vast ✓
- cold

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Creating a plan is a good way to help you prepare before completing a piece of writing
Our plans will contain ambitious vocabulary
Two adjectives in an expanded noun phrase should be separated by a comma
Adverbs should be used to describe a verb

Pupils may think that all words are ambitious vocabulary.

Teach pupils that there can be multiple options when selecting vocabulary and they need to carefully choose the most precise words in their writing.