Starter quiz
- What is 'show and tell'?
- conveying a character's feelings through sensory details, thoughts and actions ✓
- explicitly stating how a character is feeling
- asking a rhetorical question
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- True or false? The climax of a story involves the main action.
- True ✓
- False
- What is the purpose of the climax of a story?
- to move the main character's journey forward and build suspense
- to introduce the character and setting
- to build the suspense and excitement to its highest point in the story ✓
- to resolve the problem completely
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- How does the climax in Chapter 5 of 'The Firework-Maker's Daughter' begin?
- Lila climbs the mountain.
- Lila enters the Grotto. ✓
- Lila goes home.
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- What is a plan?
- a writer's first ideas about their writing
- a final piece of written work
- a framework that writers create before they write ✓
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- True or false? A plan should be written in full sentences.
- True
- False ✓
Exit quiz
- Put these events from the beginning of the climax in the correct order.
- 1⇔Lila found only silence and darkness when she entered the Grotto.
- 2⇔A flicker of light became a thousand fireflies who lit up the cave.
- 3⇔The great fire spirit Razvani emerged from the centre of the light.
- Match the key moment to the emotions Lila felt.
- entered Grotto, silence and darkness⇔disappointed, deflated, hopeless ✓
- flicker of light, a thousand fireflies⇔stunned, mesmerised, intrigued ✓
- the fire spirit Razvani emerged⇔terrified, anxious, nervous ✓
- True or false? Precise description of a character's movements can convey their emotions.
- True ✓
- False
- Match the emotion to the appropriate 'show and tell' language.
- hopeless⇔crumpled to her knees ✓
- mesmerised⇔eyes bulged with wonder ✓
- terrified⇔her pulse raced ✓
- What type of vocabulary should be included in your plan?
- ambitious ✓
- precise ✓
- general
- simple
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- How is a plan written?
- in full sentences
- in note format ✓
- in paragraphs
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The purpose of the climax is to describe the main action and take the suspense and excitement to its highest point.
- Precise and ambitious vocabulary create vivid images for the reader for each key moment of the climax.
- An effective plan has vocabulary organised concisely and neatly.
- Careful verb and adverb selection can convey characters' feelings through ‘show and tell’.
- The emotions of the character change through the key moments of the climax.
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult to generate some of their own ideas for precise and ambitious vocabulary.
Model use of a thesaurus to up level simple pieces of vocabulary. For example, instead of 'fell', children might use 'crumpled', 'collapsed' or 'sunk'.
Keywords
Climax - the point in the narrative where the suspense and excitement reaches its highest point
Ambitious vocabulary - high-level language in writing that meets the text's purpose
'show and tell' - a writing technique for showing a character's feelings with description of their actions, body language and facial expressions
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section of whole text
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