Literacy - Imaginative Writing Lesson

A literacy lesson (writing) aimed at second level (CfE).

An imaginative writing lesson where the pupils will watch a video clip (30 seconds long) of a scene from the movie ‘Shrek’ (rated U) on YouTube. In the scene Shrek and Donkey are trying to save the princess and are running from a dragon.

During this writing piece, pupils are focusing on; writing an imaginative story by using the video clip as a starting point to their story, using descriptive language to describe the setting / characters within their writing and using punctuation accurately throughout their story.

The download includes:

• Learning Intentions + Success Criteria.
• Example story to read to pupils / analyse descriptive words and phrases.
• Three different sentence starters to help pupils begin their story from the point the video is paused.
• Instructions on how to find the video on YouTube (due to tes copyright) + (instructions for when to start / pause video clip).
• Success criteria ready to cut out for pupils to stick into jotters (not differentiated).

PUPILS ARE WELCOME TO CHANGE CHARACTER NAMES / APPEARANCE. THE STORY DOES NOT NEED TO INCLUDE SHREK / DONKEY AS CHARACTERS.