This unit provides a great overview of the narrative strategy ‘show don’t tell’, encouraging the use of descriptive language to describe the characters, scenery and plot, whereby the reader may use their inferencing skills to comprehend the narrative.
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts