Goodnight Mister Tom Letter Writing Example Text Pack

An example informal letter text written from Willie to Tom, plus feature find worksheets and answers, planning and writing templates, teacher notes and more. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 15 of Michelle Magorian’s World Ward II novel Goodnight Mister Tom.

Resources provided:
• Exemplar informal letter text
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
• Planning Grids, differentiated x3
• Writing Templates, x2
• Success Criteria Grids
• Teacher notes

The model letter is from evacuee William Beech to his countryside host Thomas Oakley asking for help. Pupils read the exemplar informal letter, examine its features, and then plan and write their own letters.

The following layout, language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the WAGOLL:
• Sender’s address
• Date
• Greeting
• Introductory paragraph
• Concluding paragraph
• Sign off
• Questions
• Interjections
• Non-standard English
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Repetition for effect
• Thoughts
• Feelings
• Commands
• Fronted adverbials
• Expanded noun phrases
• Subordinating clauses
• Relative clauses
• Omitted ‘that’
• Reported speech
• Contractions
• Brackets for extra information
• Colons for emphasis
• Semi-colons in a complex list
• Possessive nouns with apostrophes
• Double negatives

The resources are provided as PDFs and editable Word documents.

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