Planning the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age | English

Starter quiz

Which of these nouns needs a capital letter?
- caves
- mesolithic ✓
- hunters
- neolithic ✓
Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
- Their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks
- Their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks. ✓
- their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks
- their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks.
In which sentence is the comma used correctly?
- The Mesolithic people settled in, small, tight-knit communities.
- The Mesolithic people settled in small tight-knit communities.
- The Mesolithic people settled in small, tight-knit communities. ✓
- The Mesolithic people settled in small tight-knit, communities.
Which of these fronted adverbials shows that another idea is being added to the previous sentence?
- However,
- In contrast,
- Additionally, ✓
- Interestingly,
Which of these is a viewpoint fronted adverbial?
- because
- and
- interestingly ✓
- eventually
What is a fronted adverbial always followed by?
- a full stop
- a comma ✓
- an adjective
- a capital letter
- a co-ordinating conjunction

Which of these are subject-specific vocabulary?
- animal skins ✓
- nomadic ✓
- houses
- settlement ✓
- humans
What is in a plan?
- bullet points for notes ✓
- subject-specific vocabulary ✓
- paragraphs
- full sentences with capital letters and full stops
Which of the following is true of the Mesolithic period?
- They moved their homes around depending on the seasons and where animals went. ✓
- They built houses out of stone.
- They made permanent settlements.
- They always lived in the woods.
Match these Stone Age notes to the sections they would be used in.
- they gathered nuts and berries
  
  ⇔
  
  Diet ✓
- they built houses out of stone
  
  ⇔
  
  Housing ✓
- they made tools out of flint
  
  ⇔
  
  Artefacts ✓
How do notes help the writer?
- to punctuate sentences accurately
- to make subordinate clauses make sense
- to organise information easily for writing in the future ✓
- to log key vocabulary to use when writing ✓
Complete the following sentence. Skara Brae shows that Neolithic people...
- moved around depending on the season.
- lived and worked together in small communities. ✓
- built houses out of wood.
- settled in one place for a longer time. ✓

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Notes should be written in note form and bullet points can be used to order notes.
Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
The purpose of the houses paragraph is to show how housing of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
Mesolithic people were nomadic: they carried their homes with them as they moved.
Neolithic people began settling in small communties in houses built of stone.

Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.

Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.

Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
Notes - written out of full sentences
Subheading - a word, phrase or sentence used to introduce part of a text
Nomadic - travels from one place to another rather than settling