Author: hdass

Floodland (3 weeks)
Purpose: to entertain by making the reader feel an intended emotion
Audience: children in KS2
Outcome: to write an effective opening to a dystopian story

Objectives that will be taught:
to identify the audience and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
to select appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
to proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
to use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
to use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely

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

Key Organisational Devices:
using paragraphs to organise writing in time sequence
use of flashbacks
split into sections that differentiate time

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
to proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
to extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although
to expand noun phrases with the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases

Key Language Devices:
detailed/specific description of the setting and characters that often reflect the mood of the story
using a range of tenses to indicate changes in time
using a wide range of sentences structures that include a range of clause types to add detail and keep the reader interested
use of adverbials to indicate time and place

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
clause	a group of words which contains a noun or pronoun (the subject) and a verb
main clause	a group of words that contain a subject and a verb, and make sense on their own
subordinate clause	a group of words that contain a subject and a verb but needs to be attached to a main clause as it doesn’t make sense on its own
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

Year 5/6 words: aggressive, apparent, appreciate, attached, available, awkward, bargain, communicate, community, conscious, curiosity, desperate, determined, disastrous, environment, existence, explanation, familiar, guarantee, harass, hindrance, necessary, nuisance, occupy, sufficient, system, thorough, variety