Setting Descriptions Lesson - Reading, Writing & Grammar Lesson with Activities!

This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to write fantastic setting descriptions. The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter and plenary activities
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Examples of good setting descriptions & feature identification tasks
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Explanations and examples of how to use each structural and language feature in your own setting descriptions
√ Differentiated consolidation tasks (3 levels)
√ Whole class, paired, group and independent activities
√ Support slides for struggling/ younger learners
√ Feature checklists
√ Writing inspiration

Learning Objective:
To identify the features of and write my own setting description

Success Criteria:
I can explain what a setting is.
I can read and understand a setting description.
I can identify the structural features of a setting description (paragraphs, most obvious details described first, describes what can be seen, heard, felt, smelt etc.)
I can identify the language features of a setting description (fronted adverbials, powerful verbs, adjectives, adverbs, figurative language, onomatopoeia etc.)
I can write my own setting description.
I can check my work against a feature checklist.

Lesson details:

• Starter activity - Reviewing what is a setting
• Review of revelant prior learning - Where do we find setting descriptions in a story? What tense are stories usually written in? What are similes and metaphors?
  -Speaking & listening task - drawing a setting activity + evaluation of setting description discussion
• Teaching input/ information slides - setting descriptions describe what we can see, hear, feel and smell in a place
• Reading task - example of a good setting description
• Consolidation activity - structure of a setting description
• Consolidation task (differentiated 3 levels) - organising statements from description into correct order
• Input - language features of powerful descriptions (fronted adverbials, powerful verbs adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions etc.) + consolidation activities (differentiated 3 levels - rainbow writing )
• Whole class writing task (model/ shared write)
• Independent writing task (writing stimuli included)
• Differentiated feature checklist for each ability level (3 levels)
• Plenary - adjectives game

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.