Starter quiz
- What is a plan?
- a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text ✓
- a finished piece of writing
- the way a text is structured
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- Which of the following should be included in a plan?
- bullet point notes ✓
- key vocabulary ✓
- compound sentences
- paragraphs
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- Put the key parts of a narrative story structure in order.
- 1⇔opening
- 2⇔build-up
- 3⇔climax
- 4⇔resolution
- Put the following events from the story, 'The Iron Man', in the correct order.
- 1⇔The mysterious Iron Man fell off a cliff and his body broke apart.
- 2⇔He gradually pieced himself back together and went into the sea.
- 3⇔The Iron Man ate all of the farmers’ machinery and they trapped him.
- 4⇔The Iron Man resurfaced.
- 5⇔Hogarth befriended the Iron Man and led him to a scrapyard full of metal.
- What is the purpose of the build-up?
- it describes the main action and takes the suspense to its highest point
- it builds suspense for the reader leading up to the climax ✓
- it introduces the main character and sets the scene
- it resolves the problem encountered in the story
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- What is the purpose of the climax?
- it describes the main action and takes the suspense to its highest point ✓
- it builds suspense for the reader leading up to the climax
- it introduces the main character and sets the scene
- it resolves the problem encountered in the story
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Exit quiz
- True or false? At the end of the build-up, everyone was happy with the solution of burying the Iron Man.
- True
- False ✓
- What is the purpose of the climax?
- to resolve the problem
- to describe the characters and setting
- to describe the main action and take the suspense to its highest point ✓
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- Put these key moments of the climax in order.
- 1⇔By spring the following year, the mound over the Iron Man was covered in grass.
- 2⇔Suddenly, the ground began to shake and then the earth split open.
- 3⇔The ravenous Iron Man rose out of the ground.
- 4⇔The farmers wanted to respond by calling in the army to destroy the Iron Man.
- 5⇔Hogarth protested and said he had a different idea.
- 6⇔Hogarth apologised to the Iron Man and offered him unlimited metal.
- Match each word class to the appropriate vocabulary.
- nouns⇔grass, earth, hand ✓
- adjectives⇔fresh, monstrous, wide ✓
- verbs⇔shook, roared, thrust ✓
- adverbs⇔happily, violently ✓
- What is the adverb in the following sentence? 'As a family happily ate their picnic on the hill, they felt the earth beneath them tremble.'
- family
- happily ✓
- ate
- picnic
- earth
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- When we write a plan, we use ...
- full sentences.
- paragraphs.
- notes. ✓
- drawings.
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Key learning points
- The purpose of the climax is to describe the main action and take the suspense to its highest point.
- In the climax, the Iron Man resurfaces from the earth and Hogarth persuades the farmers not to harm him.
- Precise and ambitious vocabulary, as well as ‘show and tell’, help take the suspense to its highest point in the climax.
- Direct speech is used to convey Hogarth’s intentions to the Iron Man.
- A plan includes notes, a sequence of events and ambitious vocabulary.
Common misconception
Pupils may find it hard to generate varied speech ideas for Hogarth and ambitious vocabulary for the reporting clause that conveys the appropriate tone.
Get children to hot seat as Hogarth and imagine what they would say to the Iron Man in order to persuade him and win his trust. Ask children to consider how they said it in order to generate ideas for the reporting clause. Create a shared bank.
Keywords
Climax - the point in the narrative that describes the main action and takes the suspense to its highest point
Suspense - when you are feeling anxious or excited about what may happen
Ambitious vocabulary - high-level language in writing that meets the text purpose
'show and tell' - a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions and expressions
Direct speech - the term used for a character speaking out loud in a text