Year 3 - English
Writing part 1 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'
'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their ability to summarise key events from the text, exploring Lila's feelings in the build-up to these. Pupils plan and write both the build-up and the climax of the story, focusing on developing their use of complex sentences, precise vocabulary and speech.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to write a well-structured paragraph for part 1 of the climax.
Key Notes
- The purpose of the climax is to describe the main action and take the suspense and excitement to its highest point.
- Precise and ambitious vocabulary shows and tells the reader what happened on Lila's quest and how she was feeling.
- Using a range of sentence types improves text flow for the reader and conveys key moments of suspense in the climax.
- An adverbial complex sentence is a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
- Fronted adverbials of time and manner support text flow and help build suspense.
Vocabulary To Learn
- text flow: how a text is written to keep the reader engaged
- adverbial complex sentence: a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause
- fronted adverbial: a sentence starter followed by a comma
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Children may struggle with switching the order of the clauses in an adverbial complex sentence and remembering the comma rule.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
The purpose of the climax is to describe the main action and take the suspense and excitement to its highest point. Precise and ambitious vocabulary shows and tells the reader what happened on Lila's quest and how she was feeling.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'text flow'
how a text is written to keep the reader engaged.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Children may struggle with switching the order of the clauses in an adverbial complex sentence and remembering the comma rule. Correction: Provide a model of an adverbial complex sentence. Example: 'Her heart raced as she tumbled backwards.' Ask children to identify the subordinating conjunction that begins the adverbial clause in order to switch the clauses.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Planning part 1 of the build-up of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Planning part 1 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Planning part 2 of the build-up of the 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Planning part 2 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Reading the build-up in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Reading the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Understanding Lila's feelings in the build-up of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Using speech in the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Writing part 1 of the build-up in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Writing part 2 of the build-up in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
- Writing part 2 of the climax of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' Study Guide
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