Narrative Features - Creating a Setting

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60 mins | Suitable for years: 3 - 4

A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to create a narrative setting.

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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>

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