The WAGOLL is based on Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Private Peaceful’ and is a letter written from the Colonel to the men working on his estate, persuading them to join the war efforts. It is pitched at the higher end of the Expected Standard, and is ideal for use as a whole class resource. Also included is a word-bank, providing phrases to describe the war, the men at home, the situation, the troops fighting and the enemy. The WAGOLL focuses on formality of language persuasive techinques semi colon lists dashes for emphasis colons and semi colons to join clauses subordination

The WAGOLL is pitched at the Greater Depth level, though could be used whole class as a stimulus to support sentence structure and to develop use of vocabulary and language. The scene takes place in the trenches of World War One, focusing on the protagonists of Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Private Peaceful’. It takes place over a three minute time period, counting down to the order to go over the parapet and into the trenches. Also included is a figurative language word-bank, giving examples of hyperbole, pathetic fallacy, personification, metaphor and simile. The WAGOLL focuses on Figurative language (hyperbole, pathetic fallacy, personification, metaphor and simile) ‘Show, not tells’ for character emotion Cohesion within and across paragraphs Dialogue to advance the action Creating atmosphere and character through descriptions

This Year 6 newspaper is written to the Greater Depth standard, though could be used as a whole class WAGOLL to stretch children’s sentence structure and vocabulary use. The newspaper article is based on Literacy Shed’s ‘Alma’, and reports on the concerns of the families and children remaining in the town, after the disappearances of almost two dozen children. Also included is a Word Bank, giving phrases to describe the event, the children’s reaction, the townsfolk’s reaction and the police. The WAGOLL focuses on direct speech reported speech appropriate selection of formality (shifting during quotes) sensationalised language (emotive)

Based on Literacy Shed’s ‘Alma’, this Greater Depth suspense narrative WAGOLL is aimed at supporting Year 6 children in reaching the Higher Standard. It is pitched at a GD level, allowing for exposure to varied sentence structures and writing techniques to push their writing on. The narrative is written in the first person, as ‘the boy on the bike’, describing the events leading up to - and including - Alma entering the toy shop and letting the door close, without allowing the boy to escape. The WAGOLL focuses on writing from a different perspective detailed description of the atmosphere/character movements short, impact sentences Year 6 sentence structures ( : and ; to join clauses, multi-clause, dashes, etc)

Based on Literacy Shed’s ‘Alma’, this suspense narrative WAGOLL is aimed at supporting Year 6 children in reaching the Expected Standard. It is pitched at a High Exp/GD level, allowing for exposure to varied sentence structures and writing techniques to push their writing on. The narrative is written in the first person, as Alma, describing the events leading up to - and including - her touching the doll in the toy shop. The WAGOLL focuses on detailed description of the atmosphere/character movements short, impact sentences Year 6 sentence structures ( : and ; to join clauses, multi-clause, dashes, etc)