Meeting a fantastical creature in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Use your first read through of an unseen extract to establish ideas about plot and characters. Use your second read through to examine words or phrases in more detail to consider the writer’s intention. Light imagery is where the writer uses descriptions of light in order to influence the atmosphere. Colour imagery is where the writer makes specific vocabulary choices to influence the reader. Topic sentences introduce the main idea of a paragraph and clearly tell the reader what your idea is.