Author: hdass

A Tale Dark and Grimm (4 weeks)
Purpose: to entertain by making the reader feel an intended emotion
Audience: children in KS2
Outcome: to write a fairy tale with a twist

Objectives that will be taught:
identify the audience and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
to describing settings, characters and atmosphere.
to integrate dialogue to convey character
to use relative clauses
to use the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing

Examples of types of texts:
Narrative
Descriptions
Poetry
Characters/settings

Key Organisational Devices:
a hero and/or heroine has to perform one or more tasks to overcome an obstacle and defeat a villain
the obstacle is usually overcome with the help of creativity and/or magic
they normally have a happy ending with the hero being rewarded and learning a lesson
use paragraphs to organise in time sequence
dialogue to advance the action

What you should already know:
discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
in narratives, creating settings
using and punctuating direct speech
composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building an increasing range of sentence structures

Key Language Devices:
Detailed/specific description of the setting and characters that often reflect the mood of the story
Repetitive, rhythmic and
patterned language for emphasis and to create a magical effect
predictable language used,
especially at the beginning e.g. Once upon a time, In a land far away, Long ago etc. and end e.g. and they all lived happily ever after/ a long and happy life

Key Vocabulary:

audience	the group of people that the author intends to read their writing
purpose	the goal or aim of the piece of writing and the effect the author intends to have on the reader
dialogue	a conversation between two or more people
clause	a group of words which contains a noun or pronoun (the subject) and a verb
relative clause	a specific type of subordinate clause that adds information to sentences by using a relative pronouns such as who, which, where when, that, whose or whom
tense	is a form of the verb that allows you to express time