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Objectives
To plan and record main points and ideas before writing.
Resources
Lined paper | A3 plain paper | 📄 Assignment 8
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week.
Main Activity
Today, your student will write the first draft of their own description for the creative writing task of Assignment 8.
Access Assignment 8 and talk about what is expected in the Part C writing task. Access the Images resource and look at the pictures together. Ask your student to choose a picture that they would like to describe.
📄 PRINT & CUT OUT - Images resource
Cut out the chosen picture and stick it in the middle of an A3 piece of plain paper. Help your child to plan by generating descriptive words and phrases around the picture. At this planning stage, remind your student of:
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Prepositions - over, under, behind, beneath, etc
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-ing verbs - watching, waiting, listening
Encourage your student with the planning of ideas by asking: What can you see, hear and smell? Emphasise that this is not a story, but a description - it tells the reader what the place is like.
Once ideas have been generated and recorded around the picture, ask your student to say some descriptive sentences about the scene, in preparation for their first draft of writing. Encourage them to use their senses - sight, hearing and smell especially. Remind them again about prepositions and -ing verbs to help them describe.
Then, your student should write their first draft on lined paper.
Assignment
The WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) is an optional resource that you may want to use before completing the writing task. It provides an opportunity for you to look through a model answer, and make sure you understand the features that will be looked for by the Wolsey Hall tutor in the assignment. Please watch the video first, as this provides instructions on how to use the WAGOLL documents.
Assignment 8 WAGOLL - Descriptive Writing