Year 6 diary entry - WW2 (Expected Standard WAGOLL)

The WAGOLL is made up of two extracts from a diary written across two dates - 22nd September, 1940 and 24th December, 1940. Written from the point of view of a child experiencing the WW2 air raid shelters for the first time, the tone and hopefulness in the writer’s voice shifts from the first entry to the second. The 24th December, 1940 was the night of the Christmas Blitz in Manchester. The child retells the trauma of experiencing the attacks.

The WAGOLL is written at the higher end of the Expected Standard, and would be ideal for use as a whole class stimulus to develop and extend the voice of a character.

The WAGOLL focuses on

• informal tone (whilst remaining contextually appropriate for the time period)
• Adverbials of time/time conjunctions
• Emotive language
• First person
• Cohesion within and across paragraphs