Writing Overview Year 6 Week beginning – 4 May

Write the story that they’ve always wanted to write

Question time!What happened three months ago?

Who is the girl in the picture?

What has she spent the last three months doing?

Why do you think there are so many animals gathered in this place?

Who do you think used to live in these houses?

Why have they become so overgrown?

How will the animals react to her presence? How will she react to them?

Sentence challenge! (Use BBC Bitesize Daily Activities for Support)

1. Investigate Setting Description

2. Use personification in character description

Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea or animal or part of nature is given human attributes. The hope is that the object has the ability to act like humans.

The wind whispered through the long grass. Inside the barrel came a deep moan. Dancing, the clouds moved together then apart.

Write 5 sentences based on the picture using personification

3. To use relative clauses to add detail

Relative clauses are used to add extra detail by describing or modifying a noun: they usually begin with who, which, that (use a comma before who and which but not that). They can appear at the end or the middle of a sentence.

Cunningly, the fox, who always hid from his reflection, retreated behind a tree. Sometimes the girl that had dreamed of returning home thought there was no

one else left.

Write 3 sentences using relative clauses based on the picture

Sick sentences!These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you help by adding relative clauses and personification?

The girl walked through the woods. There were metal objects on the ground. She was scared.

Perfect picture!Choose one of the objects in the picture and describe it in 100 words, think about what it was used to be like too.

Use personification and relative clauses

LO: Use a wide range of clause structures, varying their position in the sentence

Story starter!It had been three months since it had happened. It had been three months since she had seen another living soul. She had to be brave if she was to make it through…

Continue the setting description using relative clauses and personification

LO: Some shaping of paragraphs is evident e.g to highlight information

Extra Writing Activity: The girl sees another person approaching the site, describe them in (100 words)

LO: Use description for precision