Year 6 letter - Greater Depth Standard (Christmas Truce WW1)

This letter WAGOLL is written from the point of view of a soldier, who has just experienced the Christmas Truce during WW1. The soldier writes to his wife back home, recounting the event. The letter is written to the Greater Depth standard, and so would be ideal for use for higher ability children, or as a whole class stimulus to extend and develop sentence structure and vocabulary use.

Also included is a word-bank with key vocabulary, as well as examples of sentences using

• dialogue to advance the action
• parenthesis (brackets, dashes and commas)
• dashes for additional information
• split speech
• colon list sentences
• semi colon with a conjunctive adverb
• short, impact sentences