Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
Today you are going to plan your detailed description of what will happen to the witch when she drinks your potion.
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
Share your brief ideas from Tuesday’s plan…
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
The descriptions in The Witch’s cat and the Cooking Catastrophe, are very short.
What do you think it would feel like to turn into a….
How could we improve this description?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
The descriptions in The Witch’s cat and the Cooking Catastrophe, are very short.
What do you think it would feel like to turn into a….
How could we improve this description?
Then she swallowed with a loud gulp and…
ZAAP!
In a flash of light, she turned into… a frog!
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing. The descriptions in The
Witch’s cat and the Cooking Catastrophe, are very short.
What do you think it would feel like to turn into a….
How could we improve this description?
add more steps
Then she swallowed with a loud gulp and…
ZAAP!
In a flash of light, she turned into… a frog!
adjectives
adverbsexciting verbs
similes
fronted adverbials
prepositions
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
Now listen to this description of Gramdma
taking the medicine in Roald Dahl’s story, George’s Marvellous Medicine.
Why is this description better?
What do you like about it?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
There are lots of different steps that happen to Grandma when she takes the medicine. Today you are going to plan some different
steps that the witch will go through when she drinks your potion!
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing. What is the first thing that happens to Grandma?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
What will be the first thing to happen to the witch when she drinks your potion?
What exciting vocabulary could you include to describe it?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
What happens next to grandma?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
What will happen to the witch next when she drinks your potion?
What exciting vocabulary could you include to describe it?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
What happens next to grandma?
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
She falls back down
Tremendous shockMarvellous mixture
plop
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
She falls back down
Tremendous shockMarvellous mixture
plop
What will happen to the witch next when she drinks your potion?
What exciting vocabulary could you include to describe it?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
What happens next to grandma?
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
She falls back down
Tremendous shockMarvellous mixture
plop
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
What happens next to grandma?
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
She falls back down
Tremendous shockMarvellous mixture
plop
She is on fire
Clouds of black smokeBurned to a crisp!Fried to a frizzle!
Boiled like a beetroot!
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
She yells and shoots intothe air
Electric currentLike a jack in the box
Woosh“Oweeeee!”
She freezes
RigidFrozen
QuiveringEyes bulging
Hair standing up on end
She falls back down
Tremendous shockMarvellous mixture
plop
She is on fire
Clouds of black smokeBurned to a crisp!Fried to a frizzle!
Boiled like a beetroot!
What will be the last thing to happen to the witch when she drinks your potion?
What exciting vocabulary could you include to describe it?
Thursday 25th FebruaryLO: To plan my writing.
Your task today is to complete the four box plan with pictures and exciting language to describe the steps that the witch will go
through when she drinks your potion.
Try to include your Year 3 skills: ambitious adjectives, exciting verbs adverbs, fronted adverbials and prepositions.
© Can you add an extra step?
