Starter quiz
- What is an adjective?
- a naming word for people, places and things
- a doing or being word
- a word that describes or adds detail to a verb
- a word that describes or adds detail to a noun ✓
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- Which of these adjectives describe feelings or emotions?
- purple
- bright
- tasty
- happy ✓
- angry ✓
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- What is the adjective in the following sentence? 'Floella felt overjoyed when she saw her Marmie.'
- Floella
- overjoyed ✓
- Marmie
- saw
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- What is the adjective in the following sentence? 'Paddington feels confused.'
- Paddington
- feels
- confused ✓
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- Match each word class to its example in the following sentence: 'Floella feels excited.'
- noun⇔Floella ✓
- verb⇔feels ✓
- adjective⇔excited ✓
- Which words would you use when talking about yourself?
- I ✓
- he
- me ✓
- my ✓
- they
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Exit quiz
- What does perspective mean?
- a feeling or mood
- a picture or drawing in a book
- thinking from someone else's point of view ✓
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- Which of these words would you use if you were speaking in the first person perspective?
- I ✓
- she
- me ✓
- they
- my ✓
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- Imagine that you are Paddington. What is your favourite food?
- My favourite food is bacon.
- My favourite food is marmalade. ✓
- My favourite food is broccoli.
- My favourite food is honey.
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- Imagine that you are Floella. How would your describe the cabin of the boat you stayed in?
- The cabin on the boat was huge.
- The cabin on the boat was beautiful.
- The cabin on the boat was boring.
- The cabin on the boat was small. ✓
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- Imagine that you are Paddington. Which room did you flood?
- I flooded the bathroom. ✓
- I flooded the kitchen.
- I flooded the lounge.
- I flooded the cafe.
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- Imagine that you are Floella. Which adjectives could you use to describe how Floella felt when she was honoured by the Queen?
- proud ✓
- angry
- successful ✓
- upset
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Key learning points
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration.
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
- Imagining how people might feel because of certain actions can help to understand the perspective of others.
- Discussing feelings of others helps to generate alternative & more powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event.
- Using 'I', 'me' or 'my' is a way of speaking in the first person.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to speak in the fist person imagining they are someone else.
The sentence stems should support. Teachers should ask the question, then say the sentence stem and provide children time to speak to someone to rehearse answers in full sentences. If they don't reply in full sentences, always re-phrase it for them.
Keywords
Character - a person or animal in a story
Emotion - a feeling or mood
Facial expression - a way of communicating emotion through the face
Perspective - point of view
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