An example informal letter text written from Jim to Shrimps, plus feature find worksheets and answers, differentiated planning sheets, writing templates and word bank. This exemplar text is perfect to use as a WAGOLL after reading chapters 12 and 13 of Berlie Doherty’s Victorian novel Street Child.
Resources provided:
• Exemplar informal letter text
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning sheets x3
• Differentiated writing templates x3
• Contractions word bank
• Task sheet
The model letter is from Jim to his friend Shrimps to explain what has happened to him. Pupils read the model informal letter, examine its features using the Feature Find worksheets and then plan and write their own letters using the planning sheet, word bank and writing template.
The following language, grammar and punctuation features can be found in the WAGOLL:
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Asyndeton
• Alliteration
• Rhetorical questions
• Hyperboles
• Slang
• Idioms
• Metaphors
• Second person
• Fronted adverbials (and other introductory words, phrases and clauses) followed by a comma
• Subordinating conjunctions
• ‘That’ omitted
• Expanded noun phrases
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Modal verbs
• Non-standard English
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
• Contractions
• Commas in a list
• Commas as parenthesis
• Commas before a co-ordinating conjunction
• Hyphens
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
• Dashes
The resources are provided as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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