Starter quiz
- Which of the following are elements of a narrative?
- action ✓
- description ✓
- persuasive techniques
- emotion ✓
- dialogue ✓
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- What is the first event in our plan?
- Romeo reacting to Mercutio's death
- Mercutio and Tybalt duelling ✓
- Romeo and Tybalt duelling to the death
- Mercutio in pain and dying
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- Who might have said the following piece of dialogue? "Watch out Romeo, Tybalt's coming back over."
- Romeo
- Mercutio
- Benvolio ✓
- Tybalt
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- Which elements of a narrative are shown here? 'Romeo felt his blood begin to boil and he clenched his fists.'
- action ✓
- description
- dialogue
- emotion ✓
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- Which pair of words could complete the following sentence? '__________ to the side of the street, he collapsed on the ground, __________ in agony.'
- staggered, writhed
- staggered, writhed
- staggering, writhing ✓
- staggering, scurrying
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- What is Romeo thinking as Mercutio and Tybalt fight?
- He wants Tybalt to win.
- He wants Mercutio to kill Tybalt.
- He wants them to stop fighting. ✓
- He wants to avenge Mercutio's death.
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Exit quiz
- Which of these features have been used in our text?
- first person
- present tense
- third person ✓
- past tense ✓
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- Which narrative element is shown here? 'Mercutio’s crimson blood stained his snow-white clothes.'
- action
- description ✓
- dialogue
- emotion
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- Which cohesive device is shown here? 'Mercutio raised his shimmering rapier, watching it glint in the midday sun.'
- adverbial complex sentence
- relative complex sentence
- non-finite (-ing) complex sentence ✓
- compound sentence
- fronted adverbial of time
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- Which of these example sentences combine the following ideas correctly using cohesive devices? 'Tybalt swaggered towards Romeo. He sneered with disgust.'
- Tybalt swaggered towards Romeo and he sneered with disgust. ✓
- Tybalt swaggered towards Romeo, sneering with disgust. ✓
- Tybalt swaggered towards Romeo as he sneered with disgust. ✓
- Tybalt swaggered towards Romeo, sneered with disgust.
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- Which two cohesive devices are used in the following example? 'Soon, both men were drenched in sweat and they were panting in the heat of Verona’s midday sun.'
- adverbial complex sentence
- relative complex sentence
- non-finite (-ing) complex sentence
- compound sentence ✓
- fronted adverbial of time ✓
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- Which of these pieces of dialogue are punctuated correctly with inverted commas?
- “Ay, ay. A scratch, a scratch!” Mercutio replied. ✓
- Mercutio replied, “Ay, ay. A scratch, a scratch!” ✓
- Mercutio replied “Ay, ay. A scratch, a scratch!”
- “Ay, ay. A scratch, a scratch” Mercutio replied.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- We have planned the structure, content and vocabulary for our narrative.
- When we write, we use cohesive devices to connect our plan notes together into coherent sentences.
- We can use fronted adverbials of time to add pace to our writing.
- We should aim to include all the narrative elements of action, description, dialogue and emotions in our writing.
- Oral rehearsal prior to writing helps us to write more easily.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to use all the cohesive devices listed in the lesson.
All these cohesive devices are covered in our Year 5 Grammar curriculum; some children may benefit from additional input using selected slides from that content.
Keywords
Narrative elements - the content of a narrative, often including action, description, dialogue and emotions
Cohesive devices - language features that contribute to text cohesion
Fronted adverbial of time - a sentence starter that tells the reader when something happens
Dialogue - a conversation between two or more people, written in a text or story
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