Starter quiz
- True or false? The boy listened to his mum and took the long route to get to his grandma's house.
- True
- False ✓
- The boy first encountered a boy leading a ...
- sheep.
- duck.
- cow. ✓
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- Next, the boy encountered a girl with ...
- a glass slipper.
- long, golden plaits. ✓
- a pea.
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- Then, the boy encountered a pair of __________ and __________ children.
- abandoned ✓
- happy
- starving ✓
- angry
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- How did the boy respond to the encounters he had in the forest?
- He gave them his cake.
- He walked away from them and kept the cake. ✓
- He comforted them.
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- The word 'encounter' is only used as a noun.
- 'False' ✓
Exit quiz
- Put these parts of the diary entry structure in the correct order.
- 1⇔date and greeting
- 2⇔opening - general statement and beginning of recount
- 3⇔paragraph one - recount of strange encounters in the forest
- 4⇔paragraph two - recount of reaching grandma's house and finding dad
- True or false? The boy is aware that the characters he meets are familiar fairy tale characters.
- True
- False ✓
- Put the following characters in the correct order, from 1 to 3, to show the order in which the boy encounters them in the forest.
- 1⇔a confusing boy, who was leading a cow on a rope
- 2⇔an angry girl, who had long golden plaits
- 3⇔a pair of abandoned, hungry children, who were sat by a tree
- Match each character the boy encounters to the appropriate character description.
- a boy, who is leading a cow⇔strange, odd, confusing ✓
- a girl, who had long, golden plaits⇔angry, demanding, fierce ✓
- a pair of children, who are by a tree⇔distressed, abandoned, desperate ✓
- Match each character the boy encounters to the appropriate descriptive vocabulary conveying a heightening of emotions.
- a boy, who is leading a cow⇔startled by the weird suggestion, walked on in confusion ✓
- a girl, who has long, golden plaits⇔made me really uneasy, continued journey swiftly ✓
- a pair of children, who are by a tree⇔incredibly overwhelmed, wanted to escape, ran as fast as I could ✓
- What should be included in your plan?
- full sentences with capital letters and full stops
- thoughts and feelings ✓
- precise and ambitious vocabulary ✓
- unnecessary information
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- This paragraph of the diary entry recounts the boy’s encounters with characters in the forest from his perspective.
- The boy encounters a boy with a cow first, then a girl with long, golden plaits and then a pair of abandoned children.
- Thoughts and feelings can be explicitly stated and conveyed through the use of ‘show and tell’.
- The boy’s emotions heighten over the course of the encounters.
- Your plan should contain precise and ambitious vocabulary and thoughts and feelings for each encounter.
Common misconception
Children may struggle to avoid repetition for describing each encounter.
Model a range of ways for saying the same thing. For example 'bumped into', 'came across', 'encountered', 'stumbled across', etc. Create a class bank of phrases and ideas they can use in their plan.
Keywords
Encounter - a casual, unexpected or brief meeting with a person or thing
Emotions - strong feelings that result from a person’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others
'show and tell' - a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions and expressions
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