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Growing Greater Depth Writers: Every Word Counts! Language playfulness and exploring the possibilities Readers delighting in the author’s craft Drawing on rich literature to develop literary technique Purposeful re-working
The best writers are the avid readers. Language is acquired through imitation. What are we giving them to imitate? @EnglishHubUK
Where the learning of language is concerned, delight is more important than anything else… If the people who look after you...look at picture books with you and don’t rush through with one eye on their watch but take their time to talk with you about what’s going on in the pictures, then the attitude you’re likely to have towards language will be that you trust it and find it exciting and full of possibilities and fun, something to play with and speculate with and take risks with and delight in. Philip Pullman primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Playfulness with Language @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Playfulness with Language I don’t want to cross the troll’s bridge. @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Language Experimentation The man walked down the road. The woman got out of the car. The troll walked towards the goat. primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
He strode towards the rickety bridge. 1. Pronoun 2. Verb 3. Preposition 4. Determiner 5. Adjective 6. Noun @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Greater Depth KS1 The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher: write effectively and coherently for different purposes, drawing on their reading to inform the vocabulary and grammar of their writing KS2 Write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, selecting the appropriate form and drawing independently on what they have read as models for their own writing This is what GD writers do already. Let’s show everyone how to do it!
Models for Structure Where do story plans come from?
Cinderella • Football Trial Announced The Invitation Arrives • • The Kind Coach The Fairy Godmother • The Ball • The Trial • The Search • • The Search The Shoe Fits • • The Boot Fits @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Cinderella • Invitation to the Coliseum The Invitation Arrives • The Fairy Godmother • • Boudicca’s Armour The Ball • • Gladiators at the Coliseum The Search • • The Search The Shoe Fits • • The Sandal Fits @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Jack and the Beanstalk Cross-curricular Version starring the young Howard Carter • Swapping cow for • Swapping the compass for a beans mysterious map • Angry mother • Angry professor • Climbing and stealing • Searching, digging and stealing • Chased by giant • Chased by The Mummy • Chopping down the • Ending the curse (with beanstalk (with mum’s professor’s help) help) @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Jack and the Beanstalk Howard Carter and the Mysterious Map • Swapping cow for • Chased by The Mummy beans -------------------------------------------- • Angry mother • Swapping the compass for a • Climbing and stealing mysterious map • Chased by giant • Angry professor • Chopping down the • Searching, digging and stealing beanstalk (with mum’s -------------------------------------------- help) • Ending the curse (with professor’s help) @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Chocolate Factory Children Child is introduced (WW/Grandpa’s thoughts) Enter the next amazing room Child misbehaves predictably Something terrible happens Oompa-Loompa song! @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Change the Details… …or “just” retell the story!
Some well-known re-tellers: Neil Gaiman William Shakespeare Michael Rosen Kevin Crossley-Holland Michael Morpurgo Bradley Cooper
The Three Billy Goats Gruff The grass is better over there! Small BG meets the troll Second BG meets the troll Large BG defeats the troll They all enjoy the grass @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Models for Structure Drama for Language
Models for Structure Models for Language
Its claws scraped along the planks, moving menacingly towards the heady scent of the distracted goat. Only the crows noted its brutal form stalking across the beams of the bridge, sensing the quickening rhythm of its breath. by by Chris & Lindsay @EnglishHubUK
Wolf His feet padded along the balcony, slinking silently past the closed doors of the other flats. No one glimpsed his shadow flickering across the curtain or noticed the uneven rhythm of his steps. Gillian Cross
His feet padded Its claws scraped along the planks, along the balcony, moving menacingly slinking silently past towards the heady the closed doors of scent of the the other flats. No distracted goat. Only one glimpsed his the crows noted its shadow flickering brutal form stalking across the curtain across the beams of or noticed the the bridge, sensing uneven rhythm of the quickening rhythm of its breath. his steps. -Gillian Cross -Us @EnglishHubUK
The Fox and the Billy Goat Fox was daydreaming as he trotted along. He was thinking of all the plump little hens he’d caught last night, waiting for him in his nice warm den. Stories from Aesop Usborne primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
The youngest goat was salivating as he trotted towards the bridge. He was imagining the taste of the lush grass he’d seen, tempting him from the other side. @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
The Iron Man The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. The wind sang through his iron fingers. Never before had the iron man seen the sea. He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. •
The troll came to the far side of the bridge. A wicked wind whipped around its brutal form. Not for months had the beast smelt a living creature like this one. It inhaled the strong scent that swirled deliciously around its snout. @EnglishHubUK
Don’ t forget the ending! The famine had ended and the dry grass and sparse ferns had been forgotten. Fear itself had passed and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched hopefully over the meadow-land. Never, never had the goats dreamed of lands so green. On the other side of the bridge, skies were hot and blazing and vegetation was burnt and yellow; this sky was of a crisp, refreshing blue which almost seemed to glisten like the waters of some brilliant bottomless lake, and the verdant blanket of land stretched far, far into the distance, on to the hopeful horizon . @EnglishHubUK
The Secret Garden The rainstorm had ended and the grey mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland. Never, never had Mary dreamed of a sky so blue. In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake, and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness floated small clouds of snow- white fleece.
Drawing on their reading as models for writing Synthesis Selecting appropriate models of language, and combining with the content to create a desired effect primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
We are going to be crafting… • Tension / Suspense ENDINGS including • • Character entrance reflection (good/ bad) Time shift/Place shift • • Dialogue that shows A sense of place (rather • character than a description of • Dialogue that moves the setting) story on quickly A feeling of relief • • Fast pace, eg action …e tc… So keep an eye out for / hunt down/ be aware of/ collect AMAZING examples! @EnglishHubUK primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Baby Elephant Susan Hellard Although Ephra was the smallest baby elephant in the herd, she had the biggest ears. The trouble was, she didn’t use them. She never listened.
Rapunzel Sarah Gibb Suddenly they came to a clearing, and there in the middle was a tall tower with no door; just a few windows at the very top. … To Rapunzel’s amazement, although the tower was as slender as a tree, inside there was room after beautiful room, lit by thousands of delicate lamps, which glowed as bright as day. primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
Talk About Short He was alone, and in the dark; and when he reached out for the matches, the matches were put into his hand. Kevin Crossley-Holland
The monster showed up just after midnight . As they do . Conor was awake when it came . He ’ d had a nightmare . Well , not a nightmare . The nightmare . The one he ’ d been having a lot lately . The one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming . The one with the hands slipping from his grasp , no matter how hard he tried to hold on . A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness 35
The Hound of the Baskervilles Blindly we ran through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our way through gorse bushes, panting up hills and rushing down slopes, heading always in the direction whence those dreadful sounds had come. Arthur Conan Doyle primaryeducationadvisors.co.uk
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