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Planning a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'

'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils use their knowledge of the text 'How To Train Your Dragon' to write a setting description, a narrative opening and a diary entry. Pupils use one stimulus to write for several outcomes, writing for different purposes by demonstrating certain techniques in each.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to plan a setting description based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'.

Key Notes

  • The setting description describes where the narrative takes place.
  • Adverbial detail describes when, where or how things happened.
  • Ambitious, precise verbs and descriptive adjectives help the reader visualise the scene.
  • Using a range of sentence types enhances text cohesion.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • purpose: the aim of the text
  • setting description: a description of the setting or environment in which a story is taking place
  • linguistic features: structures of language that use words
  • adverbial detail: tells the reader when, where or how something happened
  • adverbial complex sentence: a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may find it challenging to identify different sentence and clause types.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.

The setting description describes where the narrative takes place. Adverbial detail describes when, where or how things happened.

2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'purpose'

the aim of the text.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may find it challenging to identify different sentence and clause types. Correction: Ensure there is explicit teaching of simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences that is additional to this lesson, for example in discrete grammar lessons.

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