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Objectives
To explore and comment on words in texts that make an impact on the reader, including noun phrases and adjectives.
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Use Spelling Frame and choose Segment Cards to look at this week's words, or Spelling Tiles to practise this week's words. You can remove the words you are not learning, by clicking on them, then Show Me. You may wish to play some of the games, or explore the Printables at the bottom of the Spelling Frame page.
Main Activity
Recap with your student on the discussions they had with you yesterday on the different scenarios. Look at some of the key language that you wrote down for them. Which descriptions were effective? The most effective descriptions will have addressed the key points about each scenario, giving the listener a picture in their minds.
Together, read the following description together with your student. Ask them, as they read it, to identify what they like about it: what words or phrases work well and help the reader picture an image in their heads?
Starstwinkledoverhead in the night sky. The only sounds that punctuated the night were thecracklingandspittingof the flames in the camp fire. Agentle, cool breezedriftedacross the forest landscape,kissing the facesof themesmerisedchildren. The smell of the marshmallows toasting over theflickering firewound their way up the children’s noses.Flames stood tall and proud, theirsparks illuminatingthe dark, creatingdancing shadows**on the children’s faces. Everyone was completely silent,as still as marble statues. They sat, watching, waiting for the stories of the olden days to begin.
Access the Description answers resource to see how you got on. Note that the answers on the resource (highlighted in yellow) are just suggested words and phrases; you may have identified others, too!
📄 REVIEW - Description answers
Together, discuss the effect of the ‘yellow’ language that stands out (as well as any other language you might have identified). What makes the language effective? How?
Next, access the Description resource, which is the same extract as above, but with some of the yellow descriptive words missing. Together, generate new descriptive words or phrases that could go in the gaps, which make a (slightly) different effect.
📄 COMPLETE - Description resource
Once completed, ask: How do the words and phrases that we have added change the overall effect of the description? What pictures and images do you think the reader will have in their mind now? Perhaps your student could draw a picture of the new scene, now that new language has been added.