An example diary entry text for The Boy Who Grew Dragons written from the point of view of the character Kat, plus writing feature identification worksheet and answers. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL whilst studying Andy Shepherd’s fun fantasy book.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary text
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answer sheet
The diary text contains the following language, grammar and punctuation features:
• Similes
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Alliteration
• Metaphors
• Hyperbole
• Emotions
• Rhetorical questions
• Variety of sentence openers
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Exclamations
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Hyphens
• Dashes
• Brackets
The diary text recounts the events from chapters 9 and 10, from Tomas’s friend Kat’s point of view.
Pupils can read the model diary text, identify the features and then write their own diary entry from the point of view of Tomas, Kat, Kai, Ted, Liam or any other character from the story.
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