Example diary entry text for How To Train Your Dragon written from the point of view of Hiccup, plus writing feature identification worksheet, and differentiated planning and writing templates. This exemplar recount text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading the first four chapters of Cressida Cowell’s popular novel.
The diary entry recounts events that take place on Dragon-catching Day and is written from the point of view of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the story’s protagonist.
The diary text contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Mainly past tense
• Present tense (at the end of the diary)
• Future tense (at the end of the diary)
• First person
• Exclamatory sentences
• Questions
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Noun phrases
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Dashes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Hyphens
• Brackets
Pupils can read the example diary entry, identify the features and then write one of the following, including appropriate features in their writing:
✽ Their own version of Hiccup’s diary entry
✽ A diary written by another character, such as Fishlegs, Snotlout or Gobber
✽ A diary entry for the next day (either without reading the subsequent chapters, therefore using prediction, or after reading the subsequent chapters)
✽ A series of diary entries for the following days
The following resources are provided:
• Example diary text
• Feature identification sheet
• Feature identification answers
• Differentiated planning templates x3
• Differentiated writing templates x3
All resources are available as PDFs and easily editable Word documents.
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