Two example informal letters written from Carrie and Nick to their mother, plus feature find worksheet and answers, differentiated planning sheets and word bank. These exemplar texts are perfect to use as WAGOLLs after reading partway through Chapter 4 of Nina Bawden’s evacuee novel Carrie’s War.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar informal letter texts x2
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Letter planning, differentiated x3
• Contractions word bank
• Teacher notes
The model letters are from Carrie and Nick to their mother, who is living in Glasgow. It is based on the events that have so far occurred in the story. Pupils read one of the exemplar informal letters; examine its features using the Feature Find worksheets; compare this letter to the second one; and then plan and write their own letters from this part of the story or later on.
The following layout, language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the WAGOLL:
• Brackets with additional information
• Subordinate clauses
• Dashes for emphasis
• ‘That’ omitted
• Thoughts/feelings
• Rule of three
• Questions
• Contractions
• Fronted adverbials with commas
• Expanded noun phrases
• Singular possessive nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
• Sender’s address
• Date
• Greeting
• Introductory paragraph
• Concluding paragraph
• Sign off
The resources are provided as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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