Starter quiz
- What is a plan?
- a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text ✓
- a framework that writers create after they write a section or whole text
- a framework that writers create during the writing of a section or whole text
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- What are notes?
- specific and long pieces of information you write down to help you remember
- full sentences you write down to help you to remember
- short reminders or pieces of information you write down to help you remember ✓
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- Which of these is vocabulary relating to hot weather?
- scorching ✓
- blustery
- burning ✓
- icy
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- Which of these are examples of expanded noun phrases?
- beating down with fury
- as hot as the surface of the sun
- burning, scorching heat ✓
- humid, tropical weather ✓
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- How does imagining colours help us choose vocabulary?
- It taps into our sense of danger.
- It taps into our sense of hunger and thirst.
- It helps us imagine what feelings we want to create in our reader. ✓
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- Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'All around, the calm sea __________ like polished glass.'
- thrashed
- glistened ✓
- bounced
- howled
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Exit quiz
- Which of the following words have the same meaning as ‘scorching'?
- burning ✓
- searing ✓
- radiant
- gleaming
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- Which of these words are the adjectives in the following sentence? 'The sweltering, stifling sun scorched down on the parched earth.'
- sweltering ✓
- parched ✓
- stifling ✓
- scorched
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- Which expanded noun phrases best describe a very hot midday sun?
- scorching, relentless sun ✓
- peaceful, dusky sun
- blazing, oppressive sun ✓
- gentle, fading sun
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- Match these descriptions to make appropriate personification examples.
- The palm trees⇔whispered secrets to each other in the gentle breeze. ✓
- The waves⇔played a never-ending game of tag with the shore. ✓
- The relentless sun⇔scowled down on the island's shimmering shoreline. ✓
- What is the 'zoom-in' technique?
- a technique that repeats the first three words of the first three sentences
- a technique that moves from the big-picture details to the specific ✓
- a technique that moves from the specific details to the big-picture
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- Match the noun to its corresponding adjectives.
- sand⇔fine, golden ✓
- sea water⇔warm, salty ✓
- fruit⇔sweet, tropical ✓
- sun⇔blistering, scorching ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Precise and ambitious vocabulary related to the five senses should be included in the plan.
- Linguistic devices such as figurative language (similes and personification) should be included in the plan.
- The plan should be written in note-form and notes are not written in full sentences.
- The 'zoom-in' structure guides the descriptive writing paragraph.
Common misconception
Planning needs to be detailed and plans should be written in full sentences.
Planning should log precise and ambitious vocabulary, linguistic devices and be written in note-from.
Keywords
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
Notes - written out of full sentences
Figurative language - the use of simile and personification to paint vivid pictures for the reader
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