2 hours Section A: Directed writing W4 Use register appropriate to context Forms Example task Reading for meaning
Explicit
Implicit PIPS Planning What do you to do? Thinking questions • Consider both sides and • What are the main ideas evaluate the pros and cons of expressed? each • Which one will you address? • Give a personal response. • How do you respond? Agree/disagree/both? • Develop an argument in your own words. • How are you using and developing on the information in the text?
Point: reference to the text(s) inference – evaluation, your response and why - solution How to structure your writing • State the purpose of your speech. • Why are you delivering the speech? Intro • What will be referring to? Why?
• Your points in response to the question.
Body • Sum your overall view • Refer back to the topic. • What is your final point on this? Con • Where do you stand on this issue? Success criteria: Reading Success criteria: Writing Final tips • Adapt your writing depending on the form and audience. • Write in the correct register. • Consider the perspective you are writing from. • Identify relevant ideas from the text as a way of supporting your own response. Do not copy them – modify them. • Develop these ideas by inferring and evaluating. • Consider bias. • Ensure your writing is well structured with the audience and purpose in mind. • A range of ideas should be included. • Link ideas to show progression. • Ensure your writing is technically accurate. • Wide range of relevant sophisticated vocabulary. Section B: Composition Descriptive Writing Descriptive skills • Metaphors • Similes • Personification • Adjectives • Adverbs • Hyperbole • Pathetic fallacy • Oxymoron • Juxtaposition Example task Steps TIPS ! Improving sentence openings Step 2: Brainstorm Sun
Waves Clouds
Families Birds Jetty Boats
Food Workers Splashing Shouting/fun
Step 3: Organise ideas into clear plan. Think about chronology. Add techniques to your plan. 1. Sky/weather 2. People 3. Water • Sun • Families • Jetty • Simile • Oxymoron • Metaphor • Clouds • Shouting/fun • Waves • Metaphor • Simile • Personification • Birds • Workers • Boats • Personification • Juxtaposition • Hyperbole • Food • Splashing • Simile Success Criteria Write for the correct purpose Use a range of descriptive techniques Clear structure for effect – ideas and description should progress. Interesting vocabulary A range of different sentence types Different ways of beginning sentences Use of punctuation to effectively control ideas Spelling Appropriate tense Use of paragraphs to control ideas A range of different paragraph lengths for effect Links between paragraphs Final tips Narrative writing Feature of narrative writing • Character • Setting • Storyline • Exposition/conflict/climax/resolution • Voice • Tone • Structure • Interesting openings and endings • Dialogue • Descriptions Steps Example task Success criteria for narrative writing Effective openings Effective endings • Set the scene – imagery • Mystery • In the middle of action • Circular structure • Dialogue • Shocking or unexpected twist • Short sentence • Clear resolution • Anaphora • Apparent resolution but with a • Rhetorical question new problem • Slow reveal • Emotional ending • Flashback • Surprise ending • Mystery • Cliff-hanger • Suspense/tension • Humorous • Question Planning Step 2: Brainstorm
Beginning Ending Setting Character Tone Main events Conflict/climax
Door Door Quiet home Narrator Dark Family disappear Identity Change Peaceful only Mystery Find photo of Finding door in Changed to door narrator/ wooded Search for door tone area/danger Tension/suspense - door Step 3: Organise ideas into clear plan. Think about chronology. Add techniques to your plan. Final tips
