Starter quiz
- What is a diary?
- a fictional tale involving magical creatures
- a private book where someone records their experiences and feelings ✓
- a non-fiction text providing information to others
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- What does writing in the 'first person' mean?
- writing about things that are going to happen
- writing from the perspective of the person involved ✓
- writing about yourself and calling yourself by your name
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- Which of these words might a writer use when writing in the first person?
- you
- I ✓
- my ✓
- they
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- A diary greeting normally starts with which word?
- Goodbye
- Hello
- Dear ✓
- Be right back
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- What does chronological order mean?
- order of importance
- order of height
- order of time ✓
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- What usually comes at the very beginning of a diary entry?
- a drawing
- the date ✓
- the name of the person writing it
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Exit quiz
- What is the purpose of a diary entry?
- to tell a fictional story
- to share your feelings with other people
- to write recipes
- to recount important experiences and express feelings ✓
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- Put the following in the order they appear in a diary entry.
- 1⇔date
- 2⇔greeting: 'Dear Diary,'
- 3⇔paragraphs to organise recount
- 4⇔sign-off
- Which of the following linguistic features appear in a diary entry?
- third person
- informal language ✓
- first person ✓
- formal language
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- Which tense does the writer use when recounting in a diary entry?
- past tense ✓
- present tense
- future tense
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- Which of the following supports the sequencing of events chronologically?
- fronted adverbials of manner
- viewpoint fronted adverbials
- fronted adverbials of time ✓
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- When does a diary entry shift into present tense?
- when the writer is recounting past events
- when the writer is expressing how they are currently feeling ✓
- in the greeting
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The purpose of a diary entry is to recount important experiences and express feelings.
- A diary entry follows a specific structure, it is written in the first person and it uses informal language.
- Simple past and progressive past tenses recount what the writer experienced and felt.
- Fronted adverbials of time support in sequencing events in a recount chronologically.
- Present tense is used towards the end of a diary entry to show how the writer is feeling now.
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult to identify informal language.
Spend some time examining different ways informal language appears in the model diary entry (e.g. exaggeration, contractions, capitalised words, informal vocabulary).
Keywords
Purpose - the aim of the text
Recount - a piece of writing that recalls an event or experience
Layout - the way a text is structured
Linguistic features - a structure of language that uses words
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