Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone: Harry's Diary Entry Example Text Pack
<p>An example diary entry text from the point of view of Harry from <em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone</em> plus Feature Find worksheets and answers. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading Chapter 3 of J. K. Rowling’s novel.</p>
<p>Resources provided:<br />
• Exemplar diary entry text written by Harry<br />
• 3 Feature Find worksheets<br />
• Feature Find answers</p>
<p>Pupils read the model diary entry, examine its features using the Feature Find worksheets and then plan and write their own diary entry from Harry, Dudley, Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia’s point of view.</p>
<p>Diary entries could be written about the same day or the day before or after the model text.</p>
<p>The following language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the example text:<br />
• Similes<br />
• Metaphors<br />
• Personification<br />
• Rule of three<br />
• Repetition for effect<br />
• Onomatopoeia<br />
• Alliteration<br />
• Hyperboles<br />
• Present perfect tense (have/has + VERB+ed)<br />
• Past perfect tense (had + VERB+ed)<br />
• Past progressive tense (was/were + VERB+ing)<br />
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma<br />
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition<br />
• Expanded noun phrases<br />
• Coordinating conjunctions<br />
• Subordinating conjunctions<br />
• Relative clauses<br />
• Modal verbs<br />
• Rhetorical questions<br />
• Apostrophes for contractions<br />
• Apostrophes for singular possession<br />
• Apostrophes for plural possession<br />
• Dashes<br />
• Colons<br />
• Semi-colons<br />
• Hyphens<br />
• Brackets</p>
<p>All resources are provided as PDFs and editable Word documents.</p>
<p>The resource could be used on World Book Day as an example character profile before children create their own about their chosen character from any other story.</p>
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