Adventure Narrative - Year 3 - Story Writing

In this 3 week unit the children will be writing their own adventure narrative based on the story ‘Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs’. In this Unit pack there are highly detailed plans, interactive whiteboard slides and highly differentiated worksheets to suit all children.

Learning Outcomes:

Familiarisation with text: I am learning to understand and investigate adventure and mystery stories. I am learning to identify characters’ emotions and behaviors.
Capturing ideas: I am learning to use the language features of an adventure and mystery story.
Analysing Text, language features and organisation: I am learning to plan, present and write an adventure story.
Demonstration/Shared/Supported/Joint Construction Writing:
End of Unit (Big Writing) I am learning to/ I can: write a pirate adventure story.

Toolkit for children:
I can write an adventure story opening.
Own target
I can write in the past tense. e.g. saw, asked, replied, looked.
I can use adjectives, verbs and nouns e.g. They sailed towards the island on the sapphire ocean.
I can use a variety of punctuation. e.g “Could that be his cave?”
I can use a variety of openers. e.g. Slicing his sword towards him…, As he sailed to the island…, When the battle was over…