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Narrative Writing
Narrative Writing
michael_morpurgo_reading_coming_home_-_waitrose_249.mp4Coming Home
Coming Home
Learning Tasks:
- Retell the story in the 1st person as the robin.
- Rewrite the story as a series of diary/journal entries splitting each location as an entry:
- the frozen north,
- the lighthouse,
- the fishing boat,
- waking up in the box etc.
- Describe the weather using a range of descriptive devices such as similes, metaphors and personification.
Writing to Explain
Writing to Explain
Week Two
Week Two
WALT: Understand why and how a marae is special to its community.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will -
- Talk about the importance of Marae and explain why a marae is special to their community.
- Write a list of complex ideas about the importance of marae to their community.
- Elaborate on my ideas to explain why marae are special to their community.
Watch the videos below.
My Majestic Marae
My Majestic Marae
My Marae
My Marae
Kawiti - My marae
Kawiti - My marae
Week One - Guided Support with Mattie for Explain Writing.
Week One - Guided Support with Mattie for Explain Writing.
WALT: Identify the difference between simple and complex ideas.
Success Criteria: I will be able to -
- Summarise the key ideas within sample pieces of writing.
- Identify HOW they elaborated their ideas.
- State whether the writer's idea is simple or complex AND justify my thinking.
Share
Share
Create a vLog (video log) identifying one interesting, one positive, and one negative revelation you found in this weeks focus of Ideas?
Post to your blog.
Please use this padlet to brainstorm what you remember about writing to explain. Use these questions to help you:
- What language features do we use?
- What is the structure we follow when writing to explain?
- What is the purpose of this genre?
Follow-up Task - Use this example to help you grade it by giving this piece of writing a rubric score.
What rubric score would you give each element? Explain why.
Narrative
Narrative
Week 3/4 - WALT develop a character and write a character description.
Week 3/4 - WALT develop a character and write a character description.
SOAR
SOAR
Watch this animated short film. Pay close attention to Mara. Begin to think about her profile - what does she look like? What can you share about her personality?
Using your 'Inside-Out' plans, you are to write a detailed character description about Mara. Use powerful adjectives and expanded noun phrases.
What does the key unlock?
Where were they rowing to?
Why did they need the equipment?
What is on the other side of the bridge?
Prompts
Prompts
1. Open with the phrase, ‘Have you ever been...’
2. Describe the key in detail.
3. Use a modal verb to open.
4. Open with onomatopoeia.
5. Use a passive sentence.
Shared Writing - Click here for student writing
Shared Writing - Click here for student writing
Vocabulary - Use these words!
Vocabulary - Use these words!
deduced retreat witness clue locate
encounter evidence hunch nervous divulge
observe investigate motive uninhabited
suspect desperation hidden revealed determined
decoy conceal divert secluded uncovered
Teacher Example:
Teacher Example:
The oars swept the water towards the stern, and slowly the boat edged closer to the jetty. It was nearly sunset. Dressed from head to toe in black, the figure in the boat pulled the oars back and forth in a rhythmic movement, totally unaware of the pair of binoculars watching from the shoreline.
DADWAVERS!
DADWAVERS!
Description- He felt along the top of doorframe, running his hand over the splintered wood, until he came to the familiar shape of a key.
Action- Under the cover of darkness, the figure frantically searching for the package he’d dropped.
Dialogue- “It’s here...I have found it,” he whispered to the voice on the other end of the phone.
Where-Up ahead in the distance, where the undergrowth was barely penetrable, sat the old hunter’s cabin- this was what he’d been looking for.
Adverb- Nervously clambering through the window, he caught sight of the letter lying open on the table.
Verb- Pulling back the tarpaulin, he revealed the rowing boat that the old man had told him about.
Estimation of time- As the last of the sun’s rays touched the forest floor, the soft grey paws of a timber wolf padded along the leaf-littered pathway.
Rhetorical Question- Would he be able to locate the cabin after all these years? Simile/Metaphor – He watched, like a hawk, as the figure in the boat reached the remote jetty on the other side of the lake.
Please click link and brainstorm with your pairs what you remember about writing to explain.
1. What is the language features we use
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