Year 4 - English
Planning a stormy scene
Weather: descriptive writing
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils practise discrete narrative writing skills, basing their writing around typical stormy or desert island weather. Pupils practise using figurative language appropriately and with increasing sophistication; they also finish the unit by illustrating their descriptive scene writing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to plan a descriptive scene about a dark, stormy night.
Key Notes
- Descriptive and ambitious vocabulary related to the five senses can be included in the plan.
- Linguistic devices such as figurative language (similes and personification) should be planned.
- Notes are used in planning and they are not written in full sentences.
- The 'zoom-in' structure guides the descriptive writing paragraph.
Vocabulary To Learn
- plan: a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
- notes: written out of full sentences
- ambitious vocabulary: high-level language in writing that meets the text purpose
- figurative language: the use of simile and personification to paint vivid pictures for the reader
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Planning needs to be detailed and plans should be written in full sentences.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Descriptive and ambitious vocabulary related to the five senses can be included in the plan. Linguistic devices such as figurative language (similes and personification) should be planned.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'plan'
a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Planning needs to be detailed and plans should be written in full sentences. Correction: Planning should log precise and ambitious vocabulary, linguistic devices and be written in note form.
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