Carrie's War Diary Entry Model Text Pack

Model diary entry from the point of view of a character from the classic novel Carrie’s War, plus feature find worksheet, answers, differentiated planning templates and word bank

This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 3 of Nina Bawden’s historical World War Two novel. The diary entry, written from evacuee Carrie’s perspective, recounts the day when her brother Nick is caught eating biscuits from Mr Evans’ shop.

Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entries WAGOLL text
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Differentiated planning sheets x3
• Contractions word bank

The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.

Pupils read the example diary entry, use the WAGOLL to complete the feature find worksheet, and then plan and write their own diary entry from a different point in the narrative or from the point of view of a different character, such as Nick, Mr Evans or Auntie Louise.

The following language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the exemplar diary text:
• fronted adverbials with commas
• subordinate clauses
• dashes for emphasis
• repetition for effect
• feelings
• colons followed by explanations
• similes
• show not tell
• brackets for extra information
• expanded noun phrases
• contractions
• hyperbole
• thoughts
• possessive nouns
• omitted ‘that’
• date
• greeting with comma
• introduction
• sign off

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