Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing
Maxay tahay, maxayse hadda
In this unit, pupils develop their fiction reading and creative writing by reading extracts from famous fiction and then emulating key techniques in their own writing. They start by securing and extending their knowledge of key sentence grammar, before reading and emulating the extracts.
Aqoonta hore loo baahan yahay
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
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Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing
In this unit, pupils develop their fiction reading and creative writing by reading extracts from famous fiction and then emulating key techniques in their own writing. They start by securing and extending their knowledge of key sentence grammar, before reading and emulating the extracts.
32 cashar- Responding to an unseen extract from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
- Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing
- Developing explanations in analytical writing about Akala's 'The Dark Lady'
- Contrasting the familiar and the unknown in your descriptive writing
- Considering sensory language in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
- Revising topic sentences and selecting precise evidence from 'The Dark Lady'
- Writing complete sentences and correcting sentence fragments
- Considering sentence structures in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
- Practising planning and writing a detailed description based on an image
- Using sensory language and figurative language to create an atmospheric setting
- Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady'
- Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere
- Developing your explanation of quotations from 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'
- Explaining how Akala uses patterns of language for effect in 'The Dark Lady'
- Using dashes, colons, and commas for effect in descriptive writing
- Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing
- Meeting a fantastical creature in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
- Using simple, compound and complex sentences in descriptive writing
- Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'
- Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'
- Writing clear analytical paragraphs about Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
- Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'
- Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'
- Using precise evidence from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' to support an idea
- Explaining and emulating how Bilan uses light in 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
- Using vocabulary choices, similes, and metaphors to plan descriptive writing
- Analysing Dorothy's return from the unknown in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'
- Using adjectives and semantic fields to plan and write descriptive paragraphs
- Drafting a piece of descriptive writing on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
- Using adverbs, subordinate clauses and compound sentences in descriptive writing
- Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
- Identifying and emulating Baum's use of pathetic fallacy in 'The Wizard of Oz'