Writing

Year 5

Module 5

This term, our writing will be inspired by The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield.

Module 4

This term, our writing text will be based on the book 'The Queen of the Falls' by Chris Van Allsburg. The story is based on a retired 62 year old lady, Annie Edson, who sought fame and fortune after the closure of her beloved Charm School. Deciding to something extraordinary, Annie would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel.

We will be focusing on setting descriptions, diary entries and recounts from different character's perspectives whilst incorporating skills to make our writing cohesive and descriptive.

We foucused heavily on editing in order to read and improve our own writing in order to create an accurate final piece.

selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action

plan their writing by:

identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary

assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing
proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
précising longer passages
using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

Recount of Annie's feat:

We have learnt the skills to create a recount from the perspective of Annie about her dare devil feat, conquering the falls. To begin with, we explored a generic recount in order identify the features of this type of genre, giving us a fantastic foundation to create our own based on the amazing stunt that Annie conquered.

Setting Description:

We have also explored the setting of the Niagara Falls in order to write our own setting description, focusing on fronted adverbials and descriptive language. Brainstorming ideas for each of the senses gave us the necessary ideas to incorporate into out description of the journey of the Niagara Falls.

Character descriptions:

This week we have been exploring Annie's character by identifying suitable vocabulary to help the readers of our writing undertand the type of person she is. Using this information, we were able to create a description about Annie's life at the beginning of the story. We focused on the use of fronted adverbials to give our sentence structures a variety of openers and the use of parenthesis to add extra detail.

Module 3

Throughout module 3, we have been using the text The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani to inform and inspire our writing. Our first piece of writing was a diary entry, followed by a character description to describe two of the main characters of the book. We then moved onto letter writing and a setting description to describe an Indian marketplace. To end our writing unit for this module, we created a balanced argument to discuss the arguments for and against Nisha and her family leaving their family home in India to move to a new home in Pakistan due to the India and Pakistan divide.

selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
précising longer passages
using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

Module 2

Throughout module 2, we have been using the text Everest by Alexandra Stewart to inform and inspire our writing. Our first piece was an amazing suspense narrative where we explored the journey that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay faced when climbing Everest, hoping to become the first people to reach its summit. We have also been focussing on some new year 5 skills including: relative clauses using relative pronouns and parenthesis using brackets commas and dashes.

selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
précising longer passages
using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

Module 1

This module, we have been using The Curse of the Maya and our Inquiry topic 'Ancient Maya' to inspire our writing. We have written in a variety of different genres including: persuasive text, setting descritions and a non-chronological report, and have learnt about the features needed to write in these genres correctly. We have recapped many of the skills we have learnt throughout KS2, as well as learning some new year 5 skills.

selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing

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