<p>Creative Writing Task from picture stimulus - moving into a secret garden.</p> <p>Students encouraged in the criteria box to work with sensory language, sentence variation, interesting vocabulary, simile, metaphor, personification.</p> <p>Can be useful for baseline or end of unit test, cover work or homework - amend title as desired.</p> <p>Differentiation by outcome.</p>

<p>A great, easy-to-deliver lesson that students enjoy. Instructions for students to follow appear on each slide with examples. This step-by-step process will enable them to create a sophisticated complex sentence from a boring one.</p> <p>I find using mini white boards first works well during the creation stage but students can equally use their books.</p> <p>Suitable for year 7-9 but a bright year 6 or weaker year 10 would benefit from this too.</p>

<p>The Art of Word Craft is a 10-12 lesson, fully resourced scheme of learning suitable for year 6-8.</p> <p>Ideal as an introduction to writing or authorial techniques, this scheme introduces the importance of choosing vocabulary carefully and precisely. It allows students to experiment creatively and evaluate their choices.</p> <p>Linguistic skills covered: word choices, synonyms, sensory language, similes and semantic fields that match mood and atmosphere, alliteration and onomatopoeia to develop mood and character.</p> <p>Lesson plans are written in detail with Starter, Introduction, Development and Plenary. Each one has an accompanying powerpoint (with the exception of lesson 9 which uses the resource documents instead). Lesson plans include opportunities for differentiation.</p>

<p>Linguistic card sort containing examples of: alliteration, assonance, simile metaphor, personification, rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia, sibilance, oxymoron.</p> <p>4 pages containing options for delivery: match the examples to headings pinned around the classroom walls or individual student sheets to resequence.</p> <p>Answers on last page.</p>