Starter quiz
- What type of stories involve made-up characters?
- fiction ✓
- non-fiction
- both
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- When writing a fiction story, a writer will create ...
- characters. ✓
- punctuation rules.
- nothing at all.
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- 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.
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- A character's appearance is ...
- how the sound.
- how they look. ✓
- how they behave.
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- 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 ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of these sections of a story comes first?
- climax
- opening ✓
- resolution
- build-up
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- 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.
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- The main character in 'Lucky Dip' is ...
- Emily. ✓
- Emily's grandmother.
- Emily's grandfather.
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- 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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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- 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
Common misconception
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.
Keywords
Planning - preparing to write by generating vocabulary
Ambitious vocabulary - using words that are precise and descriptive
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