A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to create a narrative setting.
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Narrative Features - Creating a Setting
60 mins
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Suitable for years:
3 - 4
Curriculum
VC2E3LE03
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to build plots and portray characters and settings in literary texts, and explore how mood is created through settings and events <ul> <li>identifying and discussing how the use of descriptive language creates setting, influences atmosphere and draws readers into events that follow, for example ‘The castle loomed dark and forbidding.’</li> <li>discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations, for example ‘Dev was so lonely; he desperately wanted a pet, so he hatched a plan to get what he wanted.’</li> </ul>
VC2E4LE05
Create texts by developing storylines, characters and settings, and using language features from literary texts they have encountered and from their own experiences <ul> <li>creating texts using a range of sentence types, including dialogue and literary devices</li> </ul>
EN2-CWT-01
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-UARL-01
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
ACELT1599
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 narrativeElaborationsidentifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (âin the middle of a va...
ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settingsElaborationscollaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points o...
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