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A model diary writing text based on the beautiful wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker.

The model recount text is a diary entry written from the point of view of the female protagonist.

The diary comes with a feature find task, which asks pupils to search for the following writing features including figurative language and other literary devices, grammar and punctuation:
Language features
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Rhetorical questions
Grammar features
• Mainly past tense
• Present tense (at the end of the diary)
• Future tense (at the end of the diary)
• Present perfect tense
• Past progressive tense
• Passive voice
• First person
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Relative pronouns
Punctuation features
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Dashes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Hyphens
• Brackets

An answer sheet has been included.

The diary example can be used as a WAGOLL before pupils write their own diary entries based on Journey. Ideas include:
• A diary entry from the next day, describing the later events in the story
• A diary entry from the point of view of the boy
• A diary entry from the point of view of one of the guards or soldiers
• A diary entry from the point of view of one of the girl’s family members
• A diary entry from the point of view of either of the child characters, written after the book takes place

The resources come in easily editable Word format and as PDFs.

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Other Journey themed resources:
Example Writing BUNDLE
Example Description Text Pack
Character Profile Example Text Pack
Dialogue Text Examples Pack

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Journey: Example Writing BUNDLE

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sarahleigh

5 months ago
5

I love this resource, particularly the WAGOLL. Thank you for your time.

sali mali

9 months ago
4

I bought your Journey diary resource that I am hoping to use next term. I particularly like the diary WAGOLL, that I will be using with my learners. It would be great if the WAGOLL could be differentiated for lower and higher ability learners

ChrisZehn

a year ago
5

An excellent WAGOLL to start our diary entries in English. Cheers 👍

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